Sorcery in Sri Lanka is entirely about human suffering and issues of personal injustice, which are viewed in terms of cosmological/mythological conceptions of the state and its transition from a pre-Buddhist to a Buddhist socio-political order. This paper argues that personal injustices and self-perceptions of individuals as victims are grasped through conceptions of sorcery as a failure in the moral order of state and society. Sorcery discourses in Sri Lanka are concerned with the remoralization of social processes. This is particularly true in the contemporary circumstances of globalization and nationalism. The paper presents information on the emergence of innovative sorcery shrines (thoroughgoing inventions of colonialism and post-coloniality) in the mainly urban contexts of contemporary Sri Lanka. One critical implication of the argument that is presented here is that contemporary political developments have crented a moral crisis in the order of the Sinhala Buddhist state. Paradoxically, the emergence of new forms of sorcerous activities- and the persistence of long-term ones dire intended to bring the state and its agents and agencies (which are seen as being at the root of personal distress, injustice and suffering) back within an encompassing moral order in which injustice is ultimately redressed and suffering and overcome.‬