Introduction Part 1: Power Kichawi dogs and colonial thinking Ordinary sorcery: the first four rooms of Uchawi's House 'We come to you only as a test': Uganga in Uchawi The sixth and seventh rooms: from righteous flight to giving lives in turn Uchawi as it was: power, humour, agony Part 2: Crisis Revolution: political change and mystical authority The poetics of loss: hunger, commodification, and the withdrawal of magic books Part 3: Transformations Emergenc(i)es: politics and the unseen Islamic revival, dividing Jinns, and the new Uchawi Conclusion: locating Pemba today.