Guinea-Bissau is often characterised as a fragile, failed, and even a narco-state (Chabal & Green, 2016), in which the human element prevails as the ultimate culprit for the political turmoil. These pages trace the trajectories of the state in Guinea-Bissau, to disentangle the patterns of “stable instability” (Vigh, 2009, p. 145) plaguing formal politics. Discontent with authoritarian power, ethnic and religious-based clashes, accusations of resource misappropriation, illicit trafficking, and an underprepared political elite drew the country into a spiral of instability figuring several coups d’états, a civil war, and a restless military. In addition to the political scenario, this chapter describes the phenomenon of the spirit-children and inscribes it into the contemporaneity of Guinea-Bissau’s politics. The overview on the belief and ritual infanticide of the criança-irân focuses on its extensiveness in the country and among the population, regardless of religious, ethnic, or educational backgrounds. These are part of the data gathered through fieldwork in central, northern, and southern Guinea-Bissau in 2016 and 2019, and online in 2020. The last section of this chapter invokes the relevance of fieldwork as an epistemological and hermeneutic practice for theory-heavy disciplines, such as political theory. Recalling methods from Comparative Political Theory, fieldwork allows for personal along with scholarly confrontation with new environments and enables a deeper understanding of ideas towards interpretive analyses.