Chapter9

|| **book page #s** || **Topic** || **Discussion due date** || **Facilitator ** || || 75-86 || Medicine Men //(Ogbanje)// ||  ||  || Barbora Oborna Medicine Men
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<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #f113e2; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">While the Ibo tribe is considered to be one of the three most prominent tribes in Nigeria, Africa, it is mostly comprised of multiple villages, with some villages containing upwards of a thousand people. However, no matter the size of the village, there is only one Shaman, or medicine man. He is thought to be able to speak to the spirits that the Ibo people believe exist in every living thing. This interconnected web of life is thought to be accesible by only the village's shaman and it is he who incorporates the spirits into the art of healing.

The healing process is thought to begin by talking to the spirits and getting them out of the infected body. The disease is presumably caused by a spirit that has infiltrated the body of the sickly.It is then the medicine man's job to release these spirits and therefore cure the sick person. If you would like to find more information on medicine men in eth Igbo tribe try this site!!! [|More about Medicine Men of the Ibo Tribe] <span style="COLOR: #f854e0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 150%; COLOR: #d584f1; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace">Ogbanje

<span style="COLOR: #fa47ed; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"><span style="COLOR: #f73be6; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"><span style="COLOR: #f930fd; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif">Under the Ibo religion of //Umuofia// the people believe in reincarnation. The //Ogbanje// are reincarnated children that are thought to circulate quickly between life and death and meant to cause suffering and strife in their resident household. Literally translating in "children who come and go" the Ogbanje are feared in the village and are said to be evil spirits. The birth of an Ogbanje child is thought to be very dangerous to the mother and so female circumsision is oftentimes used as a way to prevent a women from giving birth at all. If, however, an Ogbanje is born, it is the medicine man's job to mutilate and kill it, burying it in the village's Evil Forest. Each Ibo village has such a place where all evil things are sent to die or to be buried. These two terms can be seen in Chinua Achebe's book //Things Fall Apart.// Here is the first scene of the book: media type="custom" key="2672737"