History of Magic in North America,being serialised on Rowling’s Pottermore website, attacked for using an ancient culture ‘as a convenient prop’JK Rowling has been accused of appropriating the “living tradition of a marginalised people” by writing approximately the Navajo legend of the skinwalker in a fresh legend.
The Harry Potter author posted the first part of a four-part series, or the History of Magic in North America on her website Pottermore,on Tuesday. Subsequent episodes are being published each day at 2pm until Friday. Tying in to the release in November of the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the short piece of writing deals with the magical fresh World in the 14th to 17th centuries.
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Source: theguardian.com