Voorbeelden van 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.

• The linking of witchcraft and a trade in child's body parts is a seemingly common phenomenon.

• 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.