When is it Moral to be a Sorcerer? 1

The Courts, the Churches, the Witches and their Killers

“…This then was the background to the laws introduced into the colonies of PNG. Like their European Christian ancestors before them, the first colonists were greatly troubled by the widespread 1 evidence of sorcery beliefs and practices they found in PNG (Barker 2007;Dalton 2007;Sack 1974). Because they believed that their civilising mission would be largely achieved by the introduction of the Western legal system, they sought to prevent the practice of sorcery by the law.…”