Ch.+9+Tribal+medicine+and+ogbanje

= Ogbanje = = Chapter 9 = = Mee Hye Smith =

= Pg. 75-86 =

__ Medicine Man/Ogbanje __  - Deliberately cause misfortune to a family - “Children who come and go” -Babies who were stillborn or died young - Purposely die and come back to life -Their goal is to haunt their mothers -  Must dig up the spirits and the ogbanje would not come back - They would be cut up so they couldn’t come back - Could have been sickle cell anemia - Mothers go to the medicine man for help - Relied upon by 80% of the population - Follows tradition and old customs


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__Works Cited__

"Ogbanje -." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. Web. 02 Nov. 2009. .

"File:Igbo medicine man.jpg -." //Wikimedia Commons//. Web. 02 Nov. 2009. .

Ademuwagun Z.A., 1979, ‘The Challenge of the Co-existence of Orthodox and Traditional Medicine in Nigeria. In: Ademuwagun Z. A. et al., (eds), African Therapeutic Systems, Walthan, Mass: Crossroads Press, pp. 165-170.



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