Magical Interpretations, Material Reality
Subtitle: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 2, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415258661
First sentence: In April 1944, a middle-aged Scotswoman called Helen Duncan was convicted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act and sentenced to ten months in Holloway Prison, London (Gaskill 2001).