Focus on the role and usefulness of traditional healers in Madagascar.
To Madagascar , one learns every day with the customs and customs that follow, but that do not look like one another. Tenacious beliefs to occult or obscure deities are still legion in all regions of the great island. To avoid their anger, nothing is worth a consultation with the "mpanandro" of the corner or the "ombiasy" of national renown. The healers of the thousand virtues do miracles by using medicinal plants combined with the oracle and raised with one ounce of benevolence of the deceased ancestors or diffuse spirits.
The "mpanandro" of versatile healers
The homes or consulting firms of healers are the subject of great affluence in Madagascar. Small and large, individuals from all social categories or from all tribes queue for miles and one reason:
– dismantle a cure to cure a clinical, benign or not disease, – asking the favors of a divinity to solve a family or marital problem, – Pray the charity of spirits in order to obtain happiness, wealth or success in life. – soliciting the powers of predilection of the healer before setting the ideal date and time of an important ceremony such as circumcision, marriage, burial or exhumation .
A lot of people also come to a “ombiasy” to get a love charm, an amulet that can soften someone or hurt someone. In short, traditional healers are versatile and they make wonders.
Effective benefits
To listen to the premises, it appears that the majority of cases handled by these multi-knowledge doctors have had positive results. In return for the healing or success of a project, a few bank notes and faith on the powers of the healer are sufficient. In difficult cases, the port of live chicken, bottle of rum and honey is required. And it's all right. The services of the healers are so effective. Their national and international reputation is transmitted from mouth to ear.
To summarize
In Madagascar, the traditional healer (called mpanandro or ombiasy, according to the region) is a true servant of the people. He is both psychic, doctor, physiotherapist, spousal counselor, social worker, psychologist, miracle worker and wizard. It is said that serious healers inherited their multidisciplinary knowledge of a close relative and they know so well to combine ancestral traditions with modern technologies. To the amateurs!
Main photo credit: Wikimedia – Tojosoa Raherinirainy
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