Question

differentiate headcraft and witchcraft in hunting

Answer 1

"It be head craft, not witchcraft."

This sentence is from the lesson 'Keesh' by Jack London.

Witchcraft - Practice or belief in magic

Head craft - Use of thinking skills to solve a problem

Explanation

- Keesh is the son of a hunter and kills a bear by hunting.

- When Klosh-kwan, the chief of the clan doubted that he possessed witch craft to kill the bear, Keesh replies that it was using his brain he thought of a solution and killed the bear and not by magic.

Answer 2

• An action performed with head-craft represents usage of intelligent thinking.

• An action performed with witch-craft represents usage of a magic which is not healthier in practice.

Let us consider a story of a hunter who is in search of an animal in a forest. After a long while, he finds a black bear under the tree taking rest. In hunting, when we say the hunter did a head-craft, not witchcraft, it means that he has used his own intelligence in killing the animal rather than using some magic.

Witchcraft is always used in the negative sense to harm someone in pursuit of selfish motives.