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The healing ceremony
For a serious ailment, illness is answered in ceremony led by traditional healers. The sick person is understood to be troubled by maternal or paternal ancestors. The full procedure stays with the author.
- Who
- Traditional healers, the sick person, kin
- When
- When a serious illness does not lift
- Where
- Homestead
- Why
- To answer the ancestors behind the illness.
The author’s paper does not say whether this is still practised today, so no status is shown.
Summarised from Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi’s Oshiwambo rituals and ceremonies.
This is a doorway, not the full account. The complete description stays with Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi until he releases it. Read it in his books.