Definition of Mganga

1. a witch doctor [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mganga

mezzobrows
mezzos
mezzotinted
mezzotinter
mezzotinters
mezzotinting
mezzotints
mfVSG hydrolase
mfd
mfg.
mg
mg/dl
mg/kg
mg/l
mganga (current term)
mgangas
mgmt
mgmt.
mgr
mgriite
mgt
mgt.
mhm
mhmm
mho
mhorr
mhorrs
mhos
mhw

Literary usage of Mganga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration by Richard Francis Burton (1860)
"The power of the mganga is great: he is treated as a sultan, whose word is law, ... It must not be supposed, however, that the mganga is purely an impostor. ..."

2. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"The principal mganga, observing me sitting on my chair as a spectator, ... She soon went away quite happy, the chief mganga having honored her by spitting ..."

3. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"The mganga has many other implements of his craft. Some prophesy by the motion of berries swimming in a cupful of water, which is placed upon a low stool ..."

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