(urth) The hut in the jungle
Dave Lebling
dlebling at hyraxes.com
Thu Nov 15 16:30:05 PST 2007
Doesn't Isangoma refer to Sev and Agia as "tokoloshe"? That's a Zulu
word for a kind of "bear-like humanoid being," according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikoloshe
That phrase would also be a good description of an alzabo...
-- Dave Lebling (aka Vizcacha)
Duncan Truter wrote:
> Just a heads-up:
>
> In South Africa, a Sangoma is a Witch Doctor. Shaman implies
> non-african, to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangoma
>
> I should have mentioned that a while back. This may cast some light on
> things. Also: I don't have the book on me (lent it to a friend, who I
> won't see for years due to different countries) so I can't re-read
> that passage at the moment.
>
> Duncan
>
>
>
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