John Hughes points out my error with regard to the imaginary witchcraft. It's among the Azande, not the Nuer. Wrong Evans-Pritchard book. The book _Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic_ has a lot to say about imaginary witchcraft and the effect of the witchcraft accusation.
There was also a squib in the Washington Post (probably an AP wire item) to the effect that the U.S. occupation force in Haiti was handling a village's accusation that an old woman was a werewolf by applying the military code of justice. Clashing worldviews, anyone?
--Martin
End of Glorantha Digest V1 #6
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