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The article discusses the recent initiatives taken by the government against witchcraft in Cameroon and South Africa. These two efforts are compared in order to help combat the fear of witchcraft.

The article discusses the chupacabras craze in Puerto Rico and its significance as a superstition or an urban legend. This is an example of the link between witchcraft, superstition, magic and politics.

The concept of 'feyman' or the acquisition of wealth by swindling, business frauds and financial deceptions as well as the riches obtained through the occult in Cameroon is discussed. The focus is on the notion of magic money or 'mokoagne moni', which is indicative of the new forms of wealth accumulation in Cameroon.

The article discusses superstition as a concept prevalent in Mexico right from the rule of colonial church to that of a secular state. Superstition like religion and magic was of assistance to people as it catered to their needs for survival in a harsh world.

The article discusses the concept of superstition prevalent in Imperial Russia from earlier times and how it impacted culture and society during that period. Right from Imperial to modern Russia, the view about superstition has not changed much with most considering it to be 'bad religion'.

The article discusses the concepts of witchcraft, superstition and heresy in Bresciano during the period 1454-1535. The control of the relationship between the spiritual and natural worlds drew on Catholic tradition and laid the basis of the sacred and united religion of modern Italy.

The article discusses the process of recording superstition in early modern Victorian and Edwardian Britain as an intellectual and cultural obsession. The fundamental tension between curiosity and censure based on which modern folklore was built is also highlighted.

The article discusses the vibrant and robust masculine culture of superstition, magic in later seventeenth-century Germany. This can be understood better through the filter of Hartmann's clerical polemic in Greuel and Stucklein.

The article discusses the views and perceptions about superstition amidst individuals in Late Medieval Europe during the 15th century. Developments in late medieval religion and intellectual culture and their impact on superstition are also highlighted.

The article discusses the Roman elite's concept of 'superstitio' and the nature of the categories and boundaries it sought to safeguard within the expansion of the Roman Republican Empire. The autocratic regime led to register new types of inappropriate behaviors and a totally new semantics of superstitio.