WHEN matters of santet, as the practice of black magic is colloquially known, enter the formal legal sphere, reactions for and against it are bound to emerge. One camp considers santet to be part of an irrational world, unscientific, supernatural, the work of swindlers. The other camp thinks the opposite: it is scientific and can be studied to produce real evidence. Yet if the two camps remain poles apart, how can anyone hope to turn santet