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Witchcraft refers to the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers in a historical, anthropological, religious or mythological context. Witchcraft resorts to such powers in order to inflict harm or damage upon the members of a community or their property. Other uses of this concept refers to the difference between good and bad witches. The notion of witchcraft is normally treated as a cultural ideology, a way to explain the misery of man by focusing on a supernatural entity or a person known to the community.

Belief in witchcraft, and, therefore, witch hunts, are found in many cultures around the world, most of which today in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the history of the Early Modern Europe, where witchcraft came to be regarded as a vast diabolical conspiracy against Christianity, and accusations of witchcraft led to large-scales witch hunts especially in Germanic Europe.

 
Practices labelled as witchcraft are those that affect the mind, the body or the will of another person. Many examples can be found in the ancient texts, such as in Egypt and Babylon, where malicious magic would have the power to influence the mind, the bod or the property and users of that sort of magic could be a credible cause of sickness, woe, sudden death, impotence etc …
 
The concept of white magic and therefore white witch, also existed in popular belief. When the belief in the existence of malicious magic practices exists, witches/wizards are generally prohibited by law, they are hated and feared by the general population. However, the beneficial white magic is tolerated or even accepted by the people.