Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
SUNY Press, African Caribbean Institute
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
My first experience with witchcraft in Africa occurred in March 1960 in Mombasa, Kenya, just as I stepped off the gangway of the MS Inchanga following a voyage from India. Next to the ship in a dockside kiosk I saw a newspaper with the headline, “European Geologist Attacked in Gogoland: Witchcraft Suspected.” It was the story of a 22-year-old British geologist, William Hanning, who had been prospecting for minerals in a remote part of nearby Tanzania when by mistake he dug into a burial ground. He was believed to be a witch, disguised as a European, out to steal body parts and to destroy ancestral graves.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Miller, Norman, "Encounters With Witchcraft" (2012). Dartmouth Scholarship. 3994.
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