‘Witches’ as Superior Intellects: Challenging a Cross-Cultural Superstition

In Diane Ciekawy & Geirge C. Bond (eds.), Dialogues of Witchcraft: Anthropology, Philosophy, and the Possibilities of Discovery. Ohio University Press. pp. 80--100 (2001)
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The assumption that witchcraft is a universal phenomenon does not do justice to the category of persons known as the "aje" in Yoruba culture. The aje evidence behavior and skills that make them into a special class of human beings in their own right. Evidence of the danger of treating some Western concepts as universals.

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