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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. Ukuthwasa - Wikipedia

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    This is signified and proved when other sangomas hide the ithwasa's sacred objects, including the gall bladder of the goat (Umgamase) that was sacrificed. The ithwasa must, in front of the community, call upon their ancestors, find the hidden objects, which includes the Umgamase, the ancestors clothes and return them back to the sangomas that ...

  4. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa - Wikipedia

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    Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa / ˈ k r eɪ d oʊ ˈ m ʊ t w ə / (21 July 1921 – 25 March 2020) was a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from South Africa.He was known as an author of books that draw upon African mythology, traditional Zulu folklore, extraterrestrial encounters and his own personal encounters.

  5. Traditional African medicine - Wikipedia

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    Inyanga/Sangoma from Johannesburg, South Africa Successful Cesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, Uganda. As observed by R. W. Felkin in 1879. Many traditional medicinal practitioners are people without formal education, who have rather received knowledge of medicinal plants and their effects on the human body from their ...

  6. Muti - Wikipedia

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    The people in the Eastern Cape of South Africa still strongly rely on traditional medicine and believe in its potency as an alternative to western medicine. [3] There are various herbs that fall under isicakathi, used for pre-natal and post-natal medicine (although they can also be used for non-pregnancy related health issues). [3]

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    Lake, who shares two children Milo, 27, and Owen, 23, with her first husband Rob Sussman, has since remarried Ross Burningham, and she says she talks to him about Evans all the time. "I talk about ...

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    The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is a 32-team tournament featuring top professional clubs from around the world, set to begin June 15, 2025, in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of FIFA)

  9. Regional forms of shamanism - Wikipedia

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    Sangomas are highly revered and respected in their society, where illness is thought to be caused by witchcraft, [121] pollution (contact with impure objects or occurrences), bad spirits, or the ancestors themselves, [122] either malevolently, or through neglect if they are not respected, or to show an individual her calling to become a sangoma ...