Bene Madunagu, Maria Mies, Ariel Salleh, Hakim Bey. I also thank Mariarosa DaUa Costa, Nicholas Faraclas, Leopolda Fortunati, Everet Green, Peter Linebaugh. I thank Michaela Brennan and Veena Viswantha for reading the manuscript and giving me advice and support.

for giving me his writings on primitive accumulation and for the important debate on this topic which he organized in The Commoner Willy Murunga for the materials he has given me on the legal aspects of witchcraft in East Africa. I thank George with whom I have discussed every aspect of this book Mitchel Cohen for his excellent comments, his editing of parts of the manuscript, and his enthusiastic support for this project Ousscina Alidou and Maria Sari for introducing me to the work of Maryse Conde Ferruccio Gambino for making me aware of the existence of slavery in 16th- and 17th-century Italy David Goldstein for the materials he has given me on the witches' 'pharmakopeia' Conrad Herold, for contributing to my research on witch hunting in Peru Massimo de Angelis. To the people who have helped me to produce this volume.

To our brother Jonathan Cohen whose love, courage and uncompromising resistance to injustice have helped me not lose faith in the possibility of changing the world and in men's ability to make the struggle for women's liberation their own. To the many witches I have met in the Women's Movement, and to the other witches whose stories have accompanied me for more than twenty-five years, nevertheless leaving an inexhaustible desire to tell, to let people know, to make sure that they will not be forgotten.

The witch and the caliban