Traditional therapeutics and its application to the abiku phenomenon in Owo Yoruba communities
The Abiku are described as wandering spirits who specialise in the sadistic mischief of finding the way into wombs of women to be born in order to die. The author considers the fundamental causes responsible for the Abiku phenomenon, the symptoms, the links of the Abiku with the supernatural, recent...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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1996
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| In: | In: Women in Africa. / Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen, Afrika-Abteilung. - Marburg, 1996. - (Africana Marburgensia : Sonderheft ; 16) , Seite 60-69 |
| Further subjects: | B
Acculturation
B People B Yoruba B Traditional medicine B Nature religion B Tree trunk Ethnology B Nigeria |
| Summary: | The Abiku are described as wandering spirits who specialise in the sadistic mischief of finding the way into wombs of women to be born in order to die. The author considers the fundamental causes responsible for the Abiku phenomenon, the symptoms, the links of the Abiku with the supernatural, recentation rituals and the impact of acculturation (especially of Islam and Christianity) on the phenomenon. (DÜI-Sen) |
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