The true significance of witchcraft is only disclosed when it is set within its full configuration of mystical forces; the same applies to ancestor cults.

Here successive interpretations of that classic case, the traditional Chinese ancestor cult, provide an object lesson.

The result would be an ancestor cult similar to that of the Lugbara.

Then, widening our focus, we looked at Lugbara witchcraft and the ancestor cult which complements and completes it.

China's ancestor cult, ancient in origin, is based on an ideal of the infinitely perpetuated nuclear family.

Burial findings suggest an ancestor cult where people preserved skulls of the dead, which were plastered with mud to make facial features.

Nowadays, it is assumed that they are related to cult behaviour (ancestor cult).

Perhaps they were associated with an ancestor cult.

This type of religion is known as an ancestor cult.

Ethnographers consider the övlat, of which six are active, as a revitalized form of the ancestor cult injected with Sufism.