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  2. Witchcraft in Africa - Wikipedia

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    From witchcraft [...] may be developed the remedy (kimbuki) that will do most to raise up our country. [42] Witchcraft [...] deserves respect [...] it can embellish or redeem (ketula evo vuukisa)." [43] The ancestors were equipped with the protective witchcraft of the clan (kindoki kiandundila kanda). [...] They could also gather the power of ...

  3. Modern witch hunts - Wikipedia

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    While some societies suffer at most sporadic and low-level witch-hunts (Senegal, Namibia, Rwanda), the entire Sub-Saharan Africa shows a high prevalence of beliefs in the existence of witchcraft and a considerable prevalence of violent witch hunts. Nonetheless, many if not most ethnic groups believe in the existence of witchcraft but do not or ...

  4. African magic - Wikipedia

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    The word magic might simply be understood as denoting management of forces, which, as an activity, is not weighted morally and is accordingly a neutral activity from the start of a magical practice, but by the will of the magician, is thought to become and to have an outcome which represents either good or bad (evil).

  5. Witchcraft in Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Witchcraft accusations are commonly seen through various forms of media including television, newspaper, and magazines. [5] Shelagh Roxburgh concluded through field research that there is no clear definition of what witchcraft is exactly, but there is a common factor in what civilians perceived it as: it causes harm. [6]

  6. Witch hunt - Wikipedia

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    Later, the Pendle witch trials of 1612 joined the ranks of the most famous witch trials in English history. [64] The Malefizhaus of Bamberg, Germany, where suspected witches were held and interrogated. 1627 engraving. In England, witch-hunting would reach its apex in 1644 to 1647 due to the efforts of Puritan Matthew Hopkins.

  7. Witchcraft accusations in Ghana could be banned by new law - AOL

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    Ghana's parliament on Friday passed a bill to protect people accused of witchcraft, making it a crime to abuse them or send them away from communities. The new law was suggested after a 90-year ...

  8. Category:African witchcraft - Wikipedia

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  9. Are witches real? Everything to know on spells, magic and more

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    If you took movies and TV shows seriously, witches, or those who practice witchcraft, would all be wearing pointy black hats, riding broomsticks and wickedly cackling over cauldrons.