Dr. James B. McCord writes in _Medical Missions_:
The Zulu baby is born into the fear of witchcraft; in the fear
of witchcraft he grows up, and when he sickens and is about to
die, his one thought is that a spell has been cast upon him
for which the charm can not be discovered. All his life long
he dreads in lonely places to meet the _inswelabova_--an
inhuman man, lacking only hair or fur to make him altogether a
beast--a sort of beast in human form who rides backward on a
baboon, ready to pounce upon and make medicine of the unwary
traveler. In mature manhood he suspects his neighbor, his
friend, his brother, and even his wife of having dealings with
makers of charms and poisons. He walks with an uneasy feeling
that an enemy may have put medicine in his path to harm him.
From every possible source, from earth and from sky, from river
and from forest, from friend and from foe, he is continually
apprehensive of evil influence coming upon him and searching for
a talisman to wear against it.
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