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2. Witchcraft in Africa - Wikipedia

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   African witchcraft beliefs are incredibly diverse, encompassing practices from healing and divination to the worship of ancestral spirits and deities. Some of the most notable African "witchcraft" traditions include Vodun , Hoodoo , Santería , the Ifá/Orisha religion, and Candomblé , each with its unique blend of African, indigenous, and ...

3. Traditional healers of Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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   Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...

4. African magic - Wikipedia

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   African magic is the form, development, ... E.K. Bongmba finds Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande by Evans-Pritchard (published 1937 [4] ...

5. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. South African traditional healer (1921–2020) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa Credo Mutwa in Soweto, South Africa (1997) Born (1921-07-21) 21 July 1921 Natal, Union of South Africa Died 25 March 2020 (2020-03-25) (aged 98) South Africa Nationality South African Other names Credo Mutwa ...

6. Hoodoo (spirituality) - Wikipedia

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   Thompson was an African Art historian who found through his study of African Art the origins of African Americans' spiritual practices in certain regions in Africa. [140] Former academic historian Albert J. Raboteau in his book, Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South , traced the origins of Hoodoo (conjure, rootwork ...

7. Ifá - Wikipedia

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   Ifá is a divination system and a religious text [1] in the Yoruba religion that originates from Yorubaland in West Africa. It originates within the traditional religion of the Yoruba people, and is also practised by followers of West African and African diasporic religions like Cuban Santería. Ifá is an ancient divination system originating ...

8. Witchcraft accusations in Ghana could be banned by new law - AOL

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   Ghana's parliament on Friday passed a bill to protect people accused of witchcraft, making it a crime to abuse them or send them away from communities. The new law was suggested after a 90-year ...

9. Juju - Wikipedia

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   Juju or ju-ju (French: joujou, lit. 'plaything') [1] [2] is a spiritual belief system incorporating objects, such as amulets, and spells used in religious practice in West Africa [3] by the people of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Cameroon. [4]