학술논문
figur, witchdoctor
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Swedish
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Foto: © Beatrix Bezeczki / Malmö Museer
Figur föreställande en sittande mansperson iklädd vit klädnad. På huvudet en huvudbonad med bruna fjädrar? och vita tygremsor. Runt handlederna vita armband och runt vristerna vita och mörkblå prydnader. I vänster hand håller han antagligen en viska. I botten signerad Elisabeth Rowland 1976. I botten på statyetten finns ett hålrum där en hoprullad papperslapp sitter och på den står det: "Witchdocters undergo a long training before they are fully qulified to / practise on their own and undertake to train younger ones. Very often a / boy or a girl is picked out in childhood because of something abnormal about / him, and apprenticed to a doct or as acolyte. This training is dangerous / to break away from because all sorts of secret herbs and drugs, / many of them highly hallucinatory are used during the train- / ing to develop latent clairadudienr and clairvoyant powers. It is said with / some truth that to break away means madness. The withdrawl symptons would / be terrible. Witchdoctors wear animalskin caps and white clothing and white / beadwork. White is the mystic colour of purity and protection among the / Xhosa and white cloth and clay and beads are part of all magic rites. The / doctors are highly skilled in healing arts, in communication with the / tribal ancestors, who stand between their descendast and God, and whose / intercession is demanded in all matters of tribal and family importance. These doctors all wear white beads upon their right wrists which shows / - among other signs, that they have had the correct sort of visions before / being admitted to the brotherhood. They carry bagsm gourds and things / containing their herbs, bones and other cures. They caharge fairly stiffly / for their services and are never poor men. All are men of great character / and generally of integrity too.
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Foto: © Beatrix Bezeczki / Malmö Museer
Figur föreställande en sittande mansperson iklädd vit klädnad. På huvudet en huvudbonad med bruna fjädrar? och vita tygremsor. Runt handlederna vita armband och runt vristerna vita och mörkblå prydnader. I vänster hand håller han antagligen en viska. I botten signerad Elisabeth Rowland 1976. I botten på statyetten finns ett hålrum där en hoprullad papperslapp sitter och på den står det: "Witchdocters undergo a long training before they are fully qulified to / practise on their own and undertake to train younger ones. Very often a / boy or a girl is picked out in childhood because of something abnormal about / him, and apprenticed to a doct or as acolyte. This training is dangerous / to break away from because all sorts of secret herbs and drugs, / many of them highly hallucinatory are used during the train- / ing to develop latent clairadudienr and clairvoyant powers. It is said with / some truth that to break away means madness. The withdrawl symptons would / be terrible. Witchdoctors wear animalskin caps and white clothing and white / beadwork. White is the mystic colour of purity and protection among the / Xhosa and white cloth and clay and beads are part of all magic rites. The / doctors are highly skilled in healing arts, in communication with the / tribal ancestors, who stand between their descendast and God, and whose / intercession is demanded in all matters of tribal and family importance. These doctors all wear white beads upon their right wrists which shows / - among other signs, that they have had the correct sort of visions before / being admitted to the brotherhood. They carry bagsm gourds and things / containing their herbs, bones and other cures. They caharge fairly stiffly / for their services and are never poor men. All are men of great character / and generally of integrity too.
etn
353
532
353 6
211
J 2v
FX17
brun
vit