Ṣàwárí

What àwọn ìyá wa actually names, why "witch" mistranslates it, the ambivalence built into the power, Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ as the institutional answer to it, and the Atinga witch-hunt of 1950-51 with Apter's cocoa-economy explanation.

Twenty-two Yorùbá proverbs on àjẹ́ (witches), oògùn (medicine or charm), and other hidden forms of power, showing how ordinary speech treats these as real, checkable forces with their own limits.

Òrìṣà Oko is the Yoruba deity of agriculture, earth fertility, judicial arbitration, and anti-witchcraft justice, centered historically in the town of Ìràwò.