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[as editor]. Yoruba Oral Tradition. With a contribution by Rowland Abiodun. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Ile-Ife.
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In addition to treating specific illnesses, African healers-herbalist and diviners- also practice preventative medicine. Patients may come to the healer seeking protection from misfortune. Or a person undertaking a long journey may want a remedy that will provide safety on her trip.
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exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/curriculum/m14/...
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Central African diviners often kept charm ingredients (claws, river stones, carved figurines, shells, clay, graveyard earth, etc.) in baskets. The magical materials could be used in divination (to determine solutions to problems), which might result in making a charm, using the same or similar ingredients.
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Some Catholic priests even advised their parishioners to seek the services of African diviners and healers on the premise that "exorcisms and other church remedies were no match for African spirits, even when they infected white Christians" (p. 221). It is also important to note that, to the Inquisition,
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Yearning for the Homeland: The "Return to the Source" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction and Visual Art. ... Through the spiritual powers associated with African women diviners, these mothers resurrect their dead children, one who has died of a drug overdose and the other who has succumbed to grief.
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Traditional African medicine involves diviners, midwives, and herbalists. Diviners are responsible for determining the cause of illness, which in some causes are believed to stem from ancestral spirits and other influences.
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www.answers.com/topic/traditional-african-medicine
www.answers.com/topic/traditional-african-medicine
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practices divination and sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead..." (Deuteronomy 18:9-12) 8 African Christian converts were required to sever all association with their ancestral-spirits and the latter's servants, the diviners.
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www.africanshaman.com/id40.htm
www.africanshaman.com/id40.htm
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Susan Cooksey, Curator of African Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art ... Diviners are sometimes differentiated from healers in that the former are considered to have spiritually endowed insight that allows them to solve many problems, and the latter concentrate on remedies for purely physical ailments.
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www.arts.ufl.edu/CAHRE/african_arts.asp
www.arts.ufl.edu/CAHRE/african_arts.asp
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Adapted from The Book of African Divination, by Raymond Buckland and Kathleen Binger (Inner Traditions, 1992). ... A college of diviners was responsible for interpretation. The Aztecs had a similar college of diviners, whose job was also to interpret the flight and the songs of birds.
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www.care2.com/greenliving/what-is-divination.html
www.care2.com/greenliving/what-is-divination.html
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