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Traditional healers of Southern Africa

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…

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Beliefs and tradition

Divination, diagnosis and healing practices

Medicines and muthi

Sangoma calling and training

Drumming and ancestral dancing

History and background

Legal status

White sangomas

Relationship with bio-medical medicine

Fraudulent sangomas and scam artists

Notable healers

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Traditional healers of Southern Africa

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headaches.Enemasinstance ofOthers are taken for the common conditions0.80text
South Africainstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text
Eswatiniinstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text
Zimbabweinstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text
Mozambiqueinstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text
Lesothoinstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text
Kenyainstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text
and Botswanainstance ofForms of the ngoma ritual are practiced throughout southern and south-eastern Africa in countries0.80text

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