Witchcraft In The Azande

As mentioned previously, witchcraft among the Azande people, is believed to be a real, authentic ‘physical property’ which inhabits internally inside some of the individuals, which often times they may even be unconscious of such control and power that is within them. The substance or the mangu is usually something that is inherited, believed that is it passed from mother to daughter and father to son. The Azande also believed that if the soul and spirit of the father is much stronger and more powerful, usually the child that is being conceived would most likely be a male; and if the mother’s soul and spirit’s substance is stronger, the child will therefore, be a female. Even though every child that are born is a product of both the male and