The 'Bushman doctor'

The 'Bushman doctor'

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Bushman Doctor or Sorcerer (who may be of either sex). By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-20. 7757-7762, 7768-7774).</i> When the <i>!gixa </i>(or healer or 'Bushman doctor') 'snores' the person, he takes sticks out of them and then sneezes them out. If he snores a lion, he makes a sound like a lion, etc. After being snored, the person recovers and can return to the hunting-ground.

1) |han≠kass'o observed this happen, but the doctors were dead by the time of this account, 2) This story is found in Book VIII-20

story

19 - 21 October 1878

Healing and ailing

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