Abstract Provocation by witchcraft, a defence to homicidal act supposedly perpetrated under the influence of belief in witchcraft and juju, has become plea frequently invoked witch-killers many African countries, particularly those formerly colonized Britain. Over last century, courts Anglophone Africa have repeatedly been invited address question as whether juju avails an accused person grave ...

Discrimination according to gender has been in practice communities globally since time immemorial. This discrimination infiltrated all spheres of life including the naming, shaming, blaming, and persecution deviant people as witches. The phenomenon witchcraft historically negatively skewed towards women, with women's sexual diversity being used against them accusations witchcraft. In some mode...

Abstract There are multiple lenses through which contemporary witchcraft practitioners perceived in literature: self-identification; mainstream stereotyping; and counterculture. Contemporary is a sociocultural phenomenon that has not received much attention outside of the disciplines anthropology sociology. Therefore, individual views experiences self-identified have arguably been diluted withi...

Who Believes in Belief? William Pooley (bio) modernity, belief, alief, doubt, Jason Josephson Storm, Michael Saler, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Nils Bubandt The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories last four hundred years Europe. There are those who continue to argue what Keith Thomas called general "decline magic," even if they disagree about chronologies a...

Sylvia Townsend Warner reviewed Montague Summers’s book on witchcraft and demonology in 1926. She took an ironic sceptical view of his denunciatory fervour.