witchcraft

Still, it can be confidently affirmed that nonspectral acts of witchcraft provided the one charge that most surely drew the court's attention.

While the accusation of treason often came from guerrillas themselves, the witchcraft cases were often brought before guerrillas by civilians.

The other notion concerned the supernatural, expressed as magic and witchcraft.

The longevity of the beliefs which linked witchcraft to political power was in part owing to the role of ocimbandas.

There is also considerable variety in the perceived social organization of witchcraft.

However, two of the six charged with non-spectral acts of witchcraft had also confessed.

Yet many stakeholders are caught directly in trans-local social networks, which apparently exert an ever-increasing impact on modern structures of witchcraft accusations.

In the same vein, witchcraft trials appear to have started earlier and reached higher intensity in areas containing major towns or trading centres.

Not unexpectedly it proved particularly effective in cleansing societies of substances associated with witchcraft.

The ramifications, therefore, reach beyond the history of witchcraft to the history of mentalities.

When this happened, the family suspected a neighbour for witchcraft.

Witchcraft of this sort must of course be fought against.

One clearly remembered and immediate outcome was a remarkable increase in witchcraft suspicions and a lack of mutual trust among neighbours.

The pattern is even more clearly demonstrated when domestic violence and the - frequently studied - prosecutions for witchcraft are considered.

It describes how the state has recently begun to recognise witchcraft in legal arenas.