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Good magic in OvamboBook 1993 • Hiltunen, Maija
Ovambo • Africa > Southern Africa
This description of traditional Ovambo magical practices and related rituals focuses on a category of good magic spells and divinations believed to protect individuals, households and communities from human witches, malevolent ancestral spirits, and ...Witchcraft and sorcery in OvamboBook 1986 • Hiltunen, Maija
Ovambo • Africa > Southern Africa
This work on the social functions of Ovambo witchcraft and sorcery explores the thesis that the apparent high intensity of these practices from 1870-1938 was in response to increased human and animal mortality from frequent famines, rinderpest outbre...