manganjah

Updated: July 10, 2025

Rowley tells how in Manganjah the sorcerer, to find out a criminal, placed, with magical ceremonies, two staffs of wood in the hands of some young men. 'The sticks whirled and dragged the men round like mad, and finally escaped and rolled to the feet of the wife of a chief, who was then denounced as the guilty person. Mr. Duff Macdonald describes the same practice among the Yaos:

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion