[5] Peter Pels (1998) posits failing in thought similarly stemming from a mis-aligned focus on the negative aspect of witchcraft representing the totum of magic.
[7] The traditional roles related to and of magic in African society is medicine-man, divinator, rain-maker,[7] and priest-magician.
[8] The priest-magician must grasp reality in many ways; understand the nature of climate, the forms of energy of the universe, the functions of material objects.
[2] He or she fulfills his or her role by exercising the intellect and discerning a way forward while under the possession or control of a spirit or force of a divinity, to which he or she is a servant.
[2] With particular reference to people dwelling within the Southern areas of Sudan, [9][10] individuals who are found to have been stricken with illness or misfortune are sometimes identified as having succumbed to the influence of sorcerers.