Then, at 21, Carlyle chanced upon a copy of The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic tale of witchcraft, Macarthyism, public hysteria, and personal integrity.
He remains the instinctive and outspoken radical who visited Salem in 1952 to search the court house records of 1692 for an account of the witchcraft trials.
And that's because, by some genuinely inexplicable reason that might be more down to witchcraft than anything else, The Jump turned out to be actually quite good.
Reckons all that climate change stuff is witchcraft.
One area I've been looking at is witchcraft issues.
Human-rights groups say several people are killed on suspicion of witchcraft every month in Kisii alone.Such hunts persist across Africa.
Because Hollywood films tend to show people at the other end of that journey, they fail to resonate.Plenty of juju and JesusAfrican elites sneer at the frequent displays of witchcraft in Nigerian films.
Its rulings are often harsh, including beheading for the crime of witchcraft, but sometimes also lenient, as in cases of rape or wife-beating.
Other suspected waverers were accused of witchcraft and burned alive, or cast into UNITA's "prisons": deep pits, sealed with logs and earth, pitch black and inescapable.In his last decade, Mr Savimbi had no outside support, so he kept his army supplied with bombs and bullets by selling diamonds mined in areas he controlled.
And witchcraft works: mere rumours of a candidate's special powers can raise his standing.In a country seeking to shed the scars of civil war, the ritual killings cause outrage.
To apply this sort of law in Senegal, goes this argument, would be quite different to doing so in France, where on February 2nd a trial began against Hawa Gréou, a Malian, for mutilating girls of Malian origin there.The debate about female genital mutilation, like polygamy and witchcraft, is highly charged.
