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.
