Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
But few people were killed at these feast, though there was a great Ingomboco, or witch-hunt, and many were smelt out by the witch-doctors as working magic against the king. Now things had come to this pass in Zululand that the whole people cowered before the witch-doctors.
The witch-doctors were discredited, and there were no torturings as punishment; but if a man transgressed, he was banished, unless his transgression was very great, and then his head was struck off in the Great Place before the king's palace.
Still, the tumult grew, for the witch-doctors were set upon the boy's death, saying that evil would come of it if he was allowed to live, having killed one inspired, and at last the matter came to the ears of the king. Then Chaka summoned me and the boy before him, and he also summoned the witch-doctors. First, the witch-doctors set out their case, demanding the death of Umslopogaas.
Also, by the help of certain witch-doctors, I filled the land with rumours, prophecies, and dark sayings, and I worked cunningly on the minds of many chiefs that were known to me, sending them messages hardly to be understood, such as should prepare their thoughts for the coming of one who should be declared to them.
And when this company had been ordered to stand aside also together with those whom they had smelt out, the king called aloud to the last of the witch-doctors, asking him of his name and tribe, and why he alone did not do his office. "My name is Indabazimbi, the son of Arpi, O king," he answered, "and I am of the tribe of the Maquilisini.
It was no wonder that the great Bamangwato tribe looked at the tall, silent, resolute young chieftain and, comparing him with his crafty father Sekhome and his treacherous, cowardly younger brother Khamane, said, "Khama is our boikanyo our confidence." The Fight with the Witch-doctors
Who will be the first to learn the truths, I wonder?" and she stared in turn at the faces of every one of them, a process which seemed to cause general alarm, bearing, as it did, a strong resemblance to the smelling-out of savage witch-doctors. Indeed, they all began to talk of this or that at hazard, but she was not to be put off by such interruptions.
So they smelt out this man and that man till we were a great company of the doomed, who sat in silence on the ground looking at each other with sad eyes and watching the sun, which we deemed our last, climb slowly down the sky. And ever as the day waned those who were left untried of the witch-doctors grew madder and more fierce.
I asked him of what he was dying, and he replied that he did not know, but that doubtless the father of the witch-doctors, named Zikali, the Opener of Roads, would be able to tell me, as he was attending on Cetewayo. "He has sent me to bid you to come at once, O Macumazahn," he added casually, "having had news that you were arriving here."
Is that not enough?" retorted M'Bongwele. "And how knew the witch-doctors that they were rebellious?" inquired the professor. "They found it out through their magic; even as you, through your magic, found out that I had returned to my people," answered the king. "Are those witch-doctors present? If so, let them stand forth," exclaimed the professor.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking