... nganga kisi ( herbalist ) and the ndoki ( sorcerer ) . Their activities are related to the different ways in which both invoke good or evil elima . Becoming a herbalist involves a thorough knowledge of the use of herbs , roots and ...
... nganga kisi [traditional healer] came to do this.” What had happened was that one young woman had gone to the antenatal clinic in Yambuku. When she returned with Ebola symptoms, including the typical searing headache, the nganga treated ...
... nganga kisi - the local sorcerer or herbalist . But , interestingly , the survivors seemed to have had a mild form of the disease with no haemorrhagic symptoms . Of course , their symp- toms could have been caused by a variety of other ...
... nganga roles , linked to one or more nkisi , forms of sacred knowledge ( plural , minkisi ) . Nganga derives from the verb vanga ( " doer " or " maker " ) , and nkisi , derived from the same root as kisi ( " cus- tom , " " manner , " or ...
... NGANGA KISI [VOO- DOO], ETC.). Any elderly person is a "sorcerer" to us! Any foolish person is a victim of voodoo to us! So-and-so took over the political power not by coup d'etat or by means of force/ weapons, but rather by voodoo ...
... Nganga - Kisi , médecin de la cour . Il s'agit de Mpanzu a Nzinga , le neveu de l'empereur , et fils de la princesse ... Nganga - Kisi . Je le sais . Faites - le sortir d'ici . Ramène - le chez Nganga Kilewa . Je vous rejoins tout ...
... nganga's success in prosecuting witches and solving problems was attributed to his own occult power (also kindoki) and his ownership of appropriate min'kisi. When the community suffered from the effects of drought, disease, or other ...
... nganga to whom it came through a chain of transmission, and who then taught it to an apprentice. If the nganga is to ... kisi, we see that some appeared at moments of general societal crisis, moments when people felt that core ...
... KISI, NGANGA AND SIMBI. Truth and Distortion,” a forthcoming publication. This individualized living energy stands by us from the time we leave our first living environment, the mother's womb, to the time when we enter into our outer ...