Another Modern Anti-Witchcraft Movement in East Central Africa

Abstract

Opening Paragraph As the title of this paper suggests, the movement described in it is not the first of its kind to have been recorded in Central Africa. About fourteen years ago Dr. Audrey I. Richards reported on a witchfinding movement associated with the Nyanja word mcape . (Local variations include mcapi , mucapi , &c.—referring to the medicine—and the Bemba called the medicine-vendors the Bamucapi .)