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  2. 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 ...

  3. Witchcraft in Africa - Wikipedia

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    In Nigeria several Pentecostal pastors have mixed their evangelical brand of Christianity with African beliefs in witchcraft to benefit from the lucrative witch-finding and exorcism business—which in the past was the exclusive domain of the so-called witch doctor or traditional healers.

  4. Witch doctor - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first use of the term "witch doctor" to refer to African shamans (i.e. medicine men) was in 1836 in a book by Robert Montgomery Martin. [ 7 ] BBC News reported, on March 12, 2015, that, "More than 200 witchdoctors and traditional healers have been arrested in Tanzania in a crackdown on the murder of ...

  5. Hoodoo (spirituality) - Wikipedia

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    Several African American families still use conjure canes today. In Central Africa, Bantu-Kongo banganga ritual healers use ritual staffs called conjure canes in Hoodoo. These canes conjure spirits and heal people. The banganga healers in Central Africa became the conjure doctors and herbal healers in African American communities in the United ...

  6. Azande witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Azande witch doctor. Witchcraft among the Zande people of North Central Africa is magic used to inflict harm on an individual that is native to the Azande tribal peoples. The belief in witchcraft is present in every aspect of Zande society. They believe it is a power that can only be passed on from a parent to their child.

  7. Matshobana KaMangete - Wikipedia

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    Mashobane KaMangethe (c. late 18th century – c. 1820s) was a South African chief, royal healer,witch doctor and cattle herder.. Mashobane, son of chief Mangethe (Zikode), was the chief of the Khumalo tribe: a clan of Nguni people living near the Black Umfolozi river in kwaZulu, in South Africa, and was the father of Mzilikazi the founder of the Ndebele (Matabele) kingdom in Zimbabwe.

  8. Category:African witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "African witchcraft" ... War Witch; Werehyena; Witch camp; Witch doctor; Witch smeller; Witchcraft accusations against children in Africa;

  9. Juju - Wikipedia

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    For example, when used with positive intentions, it can be used for healing insect and animal bites as well as counteracting and neutralizing curses. Juju is sometimes used to enforce a contract or ensure compliance. In a typical scenario, the witch doctor casting the spell requires payment for this service. [16]