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In Sorcery’s Shadow [Songhay of Niger]

deities

 

p. 40 sequence of sacred trees

 

pp. 54-55 initiation as sorko benya

 

p. 56 distinguishing characteristics of tribesfolk

 

p. 62 identification of sacred powders & resins

 

witches

 

pp. 66-67, 83-84 cowry-shell divination

 

pp. 69-71 incantations to cure illness by calling back the patient’s wandered double

 

pp. 77-82 power of sohanci

 

possessing-spirits (able to possess a human medium)

 

p. 87 war

 

pp. 171-172 how to become a zima

 

Paul Stoller & Cheryl Olkes : In Sorcery’s Shadow. U of Chicago Pr, 1987.