were stolen by witches and then his death was staged, so that his family would believe that he died. After the "burial" his spirit is... mortuary so that the relatives can bath it. In the meantime the real person is hidden somewhere in the closet or mountain... the zombie to the mortuary, they will inform it to go enter in the fridges for opposite sex. If the deceased was male they will instruct the zombie to go to female fridges...... . When they approached a certain hill inside the forest they saw a man with dreadlocks sitting there by the hill. He was dirty and stinking, like he spent his lifetime just sitting there. They greeted him but he just kept staring on the ground. The lady decided it should be him, her brother, and called him with his name; he rose up his head, stood up and ran for his "life". They tried to chase him but he was running like a monkey. He disappeared far into the forest.... them the witches captured him again and sold him to a witch doctor in Lesotho that he will be looking after that witch doctor's livestock...... Some of Amagona are for *Mpande for spirits like: Ndau, Nzunza and Abelozi Other magona are used for: witchcraft, wealth, protection, magick baths.... I don't have a mermaid spirit I would love to attract one? You can attract one by adopting the above attributes... If you are ugly try and seek second hand beauty.... the chiefs, kings and traditional priests were the only ones who were allowed to bath in the river at night..... Mantshomohlaka is my clan name, when they praise us (Segane) they say we are Mantshomohlaka (those from the black reeds), Matia-thlako, malewa ke mohlwa maboladithitho, retswa phateng ya moriana kang. (From a root of a healing plant...of the east), the water god/goddesses reside in the reeds, not just any reeds, the black/dark ones. When we talk about dark we don't necessarily mean as in colour, but rather were the reeds are dense, you cannot see inside..... When mermaids love you they bring unbelievable wealth to you. They treat you like a very important person. Some when they love you they don't want you to get married, if you are married they want you to divorce, or sleep in a separate room... Gobela- is a person who got initiated in being a Sangoma and has the gift of initiating others. Not all Sangomas has the gift or muthi to initiate others. Some Sangomas has a Femba gift..... Mpande is the root used to make a covenant with the gods before the first shrine in your spiritual lineage was erected. During that covenant certain taboos and boundaries were set. This is the reason why rules differ per Mpande. You see a person... Performing basic or advanced initiation into womanhood/ manhood Does muthi really work? perform Phalaza rituals you need to soak your muthi inside hot water in the evening, early morning you will then drink that muthi to fill your stomach.... a tree branch and vomiting on top of a magick doll or any other magick item hanged on one of the branches lower than the one you are on, etc. it depends on what you want..... Evil spirits like tikoloshi fear smoke. One Sangoma once told me that his Sangoma friend went to the Eastern Cape to banish tikoloshi and fortify the homestead..... fetch his magick bag in order to start the rituals. When he opened the bag he nearly fainted! There was nothing inside all containers, he saw something like rats and they vanished into thin air I have never laughed like that in my entire life! It is very important to smoke.... I have an intuition can I be initiated to become a Sangoma? Intuition alone is not safe to make one a Sangoma. It is very dangerous to be Sangoma, it is fatal, and you might die any time. The war is not equal to anybody, it is huge. A Sangoma work closely with spirits and .... They will go about asking the initiate questions that they know their answer will be no, questions like: "did your baba start initiating you into sithunywa" (messenger), or did your baba sew isiphika (praying cape)