Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Record summary

Robert Moffat’s 1842 account describes Tswana religious life, healing, divination, witchcraft accusations, and missionary interpretations of local spiritual practices. It is useful for comparing how nineteenth-century evangelists classified indigenous ritual specialists and harmful supernatural agency as either deception, superstition, or demonic influence. The work is identifiable through Moffat’s title, the London Missionary Society context, and Kuruman. Its descriptions are mediated by translation, theological polemic, and colonial assumptions, and it should not be treated as a neutral record of specific possession events.