All societies recognize the frailness of the human condition.
Wherever pain, illness, injury and unjustness exist, so too do culturally prescribed explanations. In many parts of the world traditional interpretations are passed from generation to generation by word of mouth. Mental and physical illness cannot be permitted to go unchecked. In non-literate societies a vast number of daily crises are attributed to witchcraft. In such societies, witchcraft explanations are not only logical, but an integral part of traditional belief systems.