The Nupe witch is always a woman, and as Nadel (1952) observes, the only way men are ever associated with witchcraft is in the fight against it as, "[c]ertain individuals [men] are said to possess a power similar to witchcraft, which enables them to see and deal with witches. ... Thus husbands are often heavily in debt to their wives, and the latter assume many of the financial responsibilities which should rightly belong to the men as fathers and family heads, such as finding bride-price for sons, paying for the children's educations, bearing the expenses of family fests, and the like. ...

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