in man. These realities were interpreted in material form-envy
became a
baboon sent by a poor man to suck dry the cows of his rich and stingy
neighbour, and lust a demon lover. Hence the "smelling out" and torture of
supposed witches and sorcerers.Z!
From time to time, an exceptional man or woman, such as Mohlomi in
late eighteenth-century Lesotho, earned a reputation that extended far
beyond the confines of any single chiefdom as an ngaka who was able to
heal the sick, foretell the future, and show the people how to recover from
disasters. In crises affecting a chiefdom-as
during droughts-the
chief
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