torture-witchcraft

Updated: August 1, 2026

But I'll try to get it back to the youngster. I never thought to come quite so low. I tackled him about a horrid practice he had admitted having recourse to. 'Torture, or torture-witchcraft possibly! It seems a hopeful way of eliciting true intelligence, not to speak of playing the game in any sort of British sense. He hung his head penitently.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales