Magical Interpretations, Material Reality
Subtitle: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa
Contributors: Henrietta L. Moore (Co-editor); Todd Sanders (Co-editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780415258678
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).