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Traditional Healing in Modern Times

by Toni Haddad

Madagascar

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The Oumbyasa - traditional healer, with his make shift protection apparatus. Used for unifying energy and protecting its beholder from evil spirits.
The Oumbyasa - traditional healer, with his make shift protection apparatus. Used for unifying energy and protecting its beholder from evil spirits.
The Sidiki is a most powerful tool, used to determine source of illness and to help the healer find the way to treat the illness or solve the ordeal.
The Sidiki is a most powerful tool, used to determine source of illness and to help the healer find the way to treat the illness or solve the ordeal.
Days start early, clients stream in as of five o'clock in the morning, with high hopes of resolving their illnesses or solving their dilemmas.
Days start early, clients stream in as of five o'clock in the morning, with high hopes of resolving their illnesses or solving their dilemmas.
People in need submit unquestionably to the demands of the Oumbyasa. They are often smeared with chalk, wood bark or blood of animals, yielding even more potency to the remedy prescribed by the Oumbyasa.
People in need submit unquestionably to the demands of the Oumbyasa. They are often smeared with chalk, wood bark or blood of animals, yielding even more potency to the remedy prescribed by the Oumbyasa.
Sacrifices are often necessary in order to complete the remedy. Chicken, mutton and in some cases zebus are are sacrificed and the spell is bathed with the blood of the sacrifice which afterwards is smeared on to the clients. This yields the spell efficient and the destiny of the clients purified by the blood of the sacrifice.
Sacrifices are often necessary in order to complete the remedy. Chicken, mutton and in some cases zebus are are sacrificed and the spell is bathed with the blood of the sacrifice which afterwards is smeared on to the clients. This yields the spell efficient and the destiny of the clients purified by the blood of the sacrifice.

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