In the early decades of the last century, cases and accusations of witchcraft in Ghana increased significantly and became an almost exclusively female issue. This was accompanied by the spread of a number of cults deemed capable of identifying the perpetrators and thus treating them. Women adopted different strategies against the accusations made against them; some were openly rebeating while others gave an external, family and community view, and confessed, not without dramatic contradictions, that they were witches and committed heinous crimes. By analysing archive sources (transcripts of trials and reports of colonial administrators’ investigations) and some secondary sources, such as transcripts of confessions, collected by Colonial Anthropology M. Field, we wish to discuss the significance of the practice of confession as a means of trying to normalise female behaviour and sexuality, which in those years appeared to be increasingly eccentric.