Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

"Water and spirit" is a depiction of Dakar's world view in detail, not a depiction of Merida's lifetime and enlightenment, she was made to accept traditional Western thought for 15 years and then returned to her hometown. At first, but only spiritually, he experienced enlightenment, or Dagara called Baar. Malidoma heard and sensed his story very similar to African Griot's story, so that audiences can experience their thoughts and actions in good faith, and saw in his early life I will let you experience things. things

Traditional animists practice shamanism. Sherman is a person who mediates the visible world and the spiritual world through ritual exercises for healing, fortune telling, and management of natural events. For Sherman, the altar is a sacred place where the spirit of Sherman lives. Shamanism is seen as a way of maintaining communication between the seedlings and the spiritual world. Nature's soul has illness, nightmares, even death, bringing physical and mental harm to Miao people. The wizard of Miao did a ceremony to track down the cause of the disease in order to obtain a therapeutic effect. Hearing impaired pass information to the person affected by the soul, and vice versa.

Shamanism is the traditional belief of the Miao family. Shamanism consists of a human shaman that goes between the visible world and the spiritual world through the practice of rituals, healing, fortune telling and dominating nature events. Hmong Shaman, also known as Txiv Neeb in Hmong, is a traditional healer who can neither study nor take over from each other, but instead choose a thing called "Dab Neeb" from the healing spirit. These souls have chosen their hosts by causing diseases, examples of intolerable food, fatigue, weaknesses, etc. Sherman is different, has varying degrees of healing power, and some are focused on specific disease areas. Miao Shamans can largely restore most diseases. If the patient can not heal the patient, the patient will be diagnosed and introduced to another source