Editor’s note: This is Part 1 in a 2-part series. I had a strange encounter with a false prophetic spirit while preaching my first “revival” meeting at the Assembly of God in Kiowa, Oklahoma, in 1972.

These traditional healers are called emandwa, which means 'the man who has a spirit sit on his head'. Near an enchanted forest on a tiny island in the middle of Uganda’s Lake Victoria, live the last ...