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In Louisiana, the term traiteur (sometimes spelled treateur) describes a man or woman (a traiteuse [1]) who practises what is sometimes called faith healing. A traiteur is a Creole (or Cajun) healer or a traditional healer of the French-speaking Houma Tribe, whose primary method of treatment involves using the laying on of hands.
Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, healing physical, emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft, and narrating the history, cosmology, and ...
A nganga (pl. banganga or kimbanda) is a spiritual healer, diviner, and ritual specialist in traditional Kongo religion. [1] These experts also exist across the African diaspora in countries where Kongo and Mbundu people were transported during the Atlantic slave trade , such as Brazil , the southern United States , Haiti and Cuba .
The yuwipi man is the healer and the one who is tied up and directs the ceremony. During the ceremony he calls spirits that can help the people. While the traditions and protocols are passed down through generations of healers, each Medicine Man has his own way of conducting the ceremony.
It is widely known in South Africa where traditional healers, especially of the Bantu people for divination. [1] Mokgale Makgopa and Magaelane Koma of the University of Venda wrote that divination bones can consist of coins, dominoes, pieces of metal and gems and other things of significance to the healer. [2]
Not all of us are meant to follow a spiritual path. We’re perfectly comfortable living “normal” lives: going to work, hauling our kids around to after school activities, and checking off ...
Traditional healers are consulted by approximately 60% of the South African population, usually in conjunction with modern bio-medical services. [4] For harmony between the living and the dead, vital for a trouble-free life, traditional healers believe that the ancestors must be shown respect through ritual and animal sacrifice. [5]
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