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Post by severance on Mar 9, 2011 13:05:29 GMT
Harry B. Wright - Witness to Witchcraft - Souvenir Press 1957, Corgi 1958 - cover art by John Richards. witch doctor...ju-ju man...b'unga...gree-gree doctor...ngombo...curandeiro...mendug...dukun...angakok...
All over the world witch doctors practise their strange rites. Harry B. Wright has travelled among them; he has lived with them; and he understands them...
As a curious and roving observer he has gone from the headwater of the Maranon and the Amazon to the jungles of New Guinea and the villages of the ancient Slave Coast of Africa. He has witnessed the exotic "Taro Cult" in Papua; the "Jackal Dance" of the Bapende in the Belgian Congo; the weird workings of the "Vivala Madness" in Dutch New Guinea; and the almost incredible evidence of strange powers among the primitive peoples of these continents.
Here is his story, fascinating and exciting, the story of a - WITNESS TO WITCHCRAFT
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