Part I: Introductory--1. The sociology of sorcery--2. Introducing the Ceŵa--3. The idiom of Ceŵa belief--Part II: The contexts of Ceŵa sorcery--4. The matrilineage from within--5. External relations of the matrilineage--6. The position of the chief--7. Believed attacks and accusations between unrelated persons--8. Sorcery as a moral force--9. Sorcery and social change--10. Biographical: the life and death of headman Gombe--11. Recurring themes in all contexts