The Congo Medicine-Man.
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native attaining advancement in civilisation or any betterment of his conditions of life, until he lost faith in his ngangas.
It will be observed that in the ceremonies of some ngangas white magic is more evident than black, and in others black magic is more prominent than white, and that nearly every nganga practised both the black and the white art by the invocation of the same fetish in a slightly different way; by dealing with his fetish in one way he invoked it to curse a person with disease and misfortune, and by following another mode of procedure he tried to soothe and appease his fetish, so that in a good humour it would give his client good health and good luck.
John H. Weeks.
