“…For example, since witchcraft is perceived by many as a cause of mental illness, removing triggers would ostensibly involve concerted efforts to remove all witches (whose identities are largely unknown) from society. The dangers of a mass witch hunt evoke memories of The Salem Witch Trials, and more recently, Northern Ghanaian settlements (called witch camps) that house ostracized women accused of witchcraft (Mutaru, 2018) and often violent witch hunts in India (Chaudhuri, 2012; Overdorf, 2017). Essentially, attempts to eliminate perceived spiritual causes of mental illness would result in a victimization shift away from the mentally ill to create another disenfranchised group—typically poor, older women, and in a few cases, young children (Adinkrah, 2011).…”