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MAGICAL METHODS FOR LOCATING SPIRIT OF SICKNESS IN ANKOLE
| Among the Bantu peoples sickness is attributed to magic, or to the influence of some ghost, and the medicine-man's duty is to discover the cause of the illness. An animal is killed, and the verdict formed after careful examination of the body; the ghost is then exorcised, and the patient led to believe that he has regained health. Healing by suggestion is common enough in Africa, and works many a cure. When treatment fails the medicine-man is ever ready with a plausible explanation |
SACRED MILK FOR BUNYORO'S SACRED MONARCH
| In Bunyoro, Uganda, until recently, tradition prescribed a very limited diet for its King. With the exception of some sacramental meat, his food was milk and milk alone. Carefully chosen milkmen and milkmaids, with their faces, chests and arms whitened with clay, performed the duties connected with serving the King |