[NEWS] Five culture links: maroons and pirates, witchcraft, Jane Austen, Korea/India, baybayin

[rfmcdonald]

• This Joseph Kelly extract at Longreads looks at how maroons and pirates made common cause in the Caribbean in fighting for their freedom.


• The Atlantic reports on how witchcraft is becoming popular among many African-Americans, especially African-American women, who reject Christianity.


• The Conversation looks at the feminist critiques of the novels of Jane Austen, only barely hidden.


• The BBC notes how an ancient myth of a Korean queen's origins in India is being used to build a new relationship between South Korea and India.


• Ozy takes a look at a Filipino man who is trying to save the ancient baybayin script of the Philippines.