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Witchcraft Serves Psychological as Well as Social Functions

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Witchcraft serves psychological as well as social functions.The Navajo are said to be a peaceful people whose culture emphasizes the importance of harmonious social and spiritual relationships.What would you expect the incidence of witchcraft to be in traditional Navajo society as compared with its incidence in another Native American Indian society that required its members to engage in periodic expressions of fighting with each other?


A) a higher incidence of witchcraft in Navajo society
B) a lower incidence of witchcraft in Navajo society
C) about the same incidence of witchcraft in both societies
D) impossible to predict
E) a higher incidence of witchcraft among the Navajo only in those social relationships in which hostility and enmity are allowed to be expressed

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