sangoma
(South Africa, and, other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.
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(South Africa, and, other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.
The Natal Zulu believes in witchcraft, prophesy, love philtres, and such like. He is firmly fixed in his mind that the witch doctors and sangomas (female diviners) have power to bring rain, to trace spells of witchcraft, to heal by incan…
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