ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides most obvious symptom of social change in the material studied was the popularity of the prophets of the Pentecostal Churches. Some churches have even developed new forms of the ordeal; here the manner in which the Churches have tried to make good the vacuum occasioned by the prohibition of the poison ordeal is particularly evident. From the point of view of the person suspected of wizardry the joining of a Pentecostal Church may not free him of suspicion as far as non-believers are concerned; but at least he is joining a group with whom normal social relationships can be established. There is, in addition, one matter which has hardly been dealt with at all so far and that is the normative effect of wizardry beliefs.
