The removal of the criança-irân from the political community conforms with endogenous political ideas but sharply contrasts with state legal provisions based on liberal predicates. On paper, the Bissau-Guinean state outlaws the ritual infanticide practice associated with the belief in the existence of spirit-children, and there are penal punishments for transgressors. In practice, the state reacts with silence and inertia: the phenomenon is little spoken about, corroborating a general lack of awareness of its extensiveness and contemporaneity. The widespread bases underpinning the belief inspire leniency against dismantling it even among politicians, police officers, and lawmakers. The state’s posture towards the spirit-children is significant as it symbolises the tolerance, or possibly even the acceptance, of the political principles the criança-irân phenomenon signifies. This chapter exposes how the commingling of political principles, evinced through the reaction to the spirit-children, creates a hybrid and multiple political space. The formation and definition of its own order is an inner aspect of the post-colonial state in Africa, in which the binaries traditional-modernity and local–global merge. Nonetheless, this syncretic eclecticism originates many dysfunctionalities due to the mismatch between power principles and political institutions—the foreground for political instability.