marabout

* A third crosscheck ultimately taught us that this mask was indeed the 'marabout' mask, and not the 'European woman.'"

Respectable marabouts do not charge for spiritual advice.

Misused, in fact, since Afuzue is more marabout or holy man than entertainer or storyteller.

Her friends subsequently carried her body to a marabout, an intermediary between the spiritual and the physical world, who succeeded in reviving her.

His pal Mr Marabout, who advertises in the black press, duly appeared in blue robes and told our reporter that the potion would 'finish your enemies'.

Verviers (Belgique): Bibliotheque Marabout, 4 vols., 1976.

Because Nathan judges that `these people' should be situated once more in their culture and that, according to the ethnological literature, if an African suffers, he goes first to a healer, a marabout or a sorcerer who will open the path of his ancestors to him.(61) Two facts seem to refute this privileged position of the sorcerer and visionaries among African therapists and the sick.

Matisse's two long trips to Morocco, produced such works as Le Marabout, Sur la Terrasse, and Porte de la Casbah; all three were completed between 1912 and 1913 and all are exhibited at the IMA (see illustrations).

Both the state structure and the marabout system are firmly entrenched.

Le premier facteur de cette evolution a porte sur la regle tacite selon laquelle la transmission du savoir religieux, comme celle du pouvoir et des privileges qui lui sont consubstantiels, ne pouvait se faire que sur des bases hereditaires : il fallait etre ne marabout pour y acceder.