Special Report Transcript Episode 70, Section 3, Time 54:56

A lot of these rituals were also I think based on quite a deep insight into human psychology so that you had rituals that were meant to empower the individual and give the individual boldness and courage to do extraordinary events. But you also had rituals that people realized were necessary in order to demotivate people from actually committing horrendous acts. For example it was known that if you had killed someone, a ritual will be performed to get that desire to kill – because it was assumed that you must have been possessed by something that is inhuman, that is not really needed, wanted in normal life – so there will be a ritual to get that out of you.

Notes: Herbert Vilakazi

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