. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. Its members are not limited to nocturnalflights through the air on broomsticks. Inthe belief of the African they are actively anddiabolically omnipresent, ready at any momentto pounce upon him. Events of whatevernature are never explained by natural word accident is not to be found inAfrican parlance. Everything is caused byspirit influence, and that, always malignant. Persons thought to have undue familiaritywith the spirits of the dead are believed capableof exercising malign and destructive such
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. Its members are not limited to nocturnalflights through the air on broomsticks. Inthe belief of the African they are actively anddiabolically omnipresent, ready at any momentto pounce upon him. Events of whatevernature are never explained by natural word accident is not to be found inAfrican parlance. Everything is caused byspirit influence, and that, always malignant. Persons thought to have undue familiaritywith the spirits of the dead are believed capableof exercising malign and destructive such are attributed the origin of misfortune,disease and death. The jurisprudence of nativeAfrica consists largely in smelling out thewitch. This gives rise to various ordeals bywhich such persons are discovered, chief amongthem being that of the sasswood, or the poison-cup. Martha Drummer, who as an evangelisticmissionary of the Womans Foreign MissionarySociety in Angola has frequently encounteredthe sasswood test, calls it the SupremeCourt of Africa. So long has the custom. zrS^
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