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  "thread": {
    "id": 1431,
    "subject": "\"Isangoma\" [Digest urth.v024.n014]",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-03-16T08:48:55+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-16T14:09:19+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0060@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-16T08:48:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: \"Isangoma\" [Digest urth.v024.n014]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "It may not be related, but \"Isangoma\" is a \"diviner\"\nin traditional Zulu medicine.  Is there a Robert and\nMarie in South Africa who would be the obvious referents?\n\nhttp://www.hst.org.za/update/37/policy4.htm\n\n(via AltaVista)\n\n     -John Bishop"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0061@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-16T14:09:19+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: \"Isangoma\" [Digest urth.v024.n014]",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0024-0060@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "John Bishop wrote:\nIt may not be related, but \"Isangoma\" is a \"diviner\"\nin traditional Zulu medicine.  Is there a Robert and\nMarie in South Africa who would be the obvious referents?\n\nhttp://www.hst.org.za/update/37/policy4.htm"
        },
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          "text": "Looks like you're on to something here, since this document also contains\nthe sentence:\n\n The Thikoloshe is the familiar of the night sorcerer and sent by him.\n\nwhich is presumably the same as what I remember as `tokoloshe'.  `Night\nsorcerer' is a good description of a torturer in a fuligin cloak.\n\nWhile I'm showing my incredible grasp of cutting and pasting, it might be\nworth passing on the central description of `isangoma' from near the\nbottom:\n\n There are two principal types of Zulu Traditional practitioners. The\n \"doctor\" or Inyanga is usually male and has a comprehensive knowledge of\n Zulu medicines.  The skills of this individual are usually passed from\n father to son. The Isangoma, usually female is a diviner. She is said to\n be chosen by her ancestors who bestow upon her a clairvoyant diagnostic\n powers. In addition to these traditional healers there are also a growing\n number of faith healers who belong to one of the numerous religious\n sects. The rituals of such sects while nominally Christian are often\n heavily overlaid with non-Christian traditional features that are\n characteristic of a culture in transition.\n\ncorncrake"
        }
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