ABSTRACT

No person with a background in Western science can admit the reality of witchcraft or the ‘breath of men’ as defined by the Nyakyusa…The only solution is to kill the belief in witchcraft. As we have shown, it is somewhat weakened by elementary education and Christian teaching; and we believe that its disappearance turns on increased technical control, particularly in the field of disease, on scientific education, and on the development of interpersonal relations.