The gritty business of politics is not something we usually associate with the occult. But esoteric beliefs have influenced the destiny of nations since the tim
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This is an extraordinary contemporary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch-hunting in 1980s South
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