Papers relating to witchcraft and the law, together with press cuttings on witchcraft, 1936

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(fols. 1-7) excerpts from the Gold Coast Criminal Code, possibly applicable to the suppression of pretension to witchcraft (four copies); and from the Witchcraft Act of 1735, n.d.
(fols. 8-11) cuttings from The Gold Coast Spectator, of articles on African witchcraft by the Rev. Cullen Young, F.R.A.I. [Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute?], 31 Oct 1936
(fol. 12) cutting from The Manchester Guardian Weekly, of an article on Witchcraft Trials by Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, KC (King's Counsel), 6 Nov 1936.

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12 Leaves

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 282/4, folder 2

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