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Nggam

Cameroonian divination using spiders or crabs

Nggam ([ŋgam]) is a type of divination found among many groups in western Cameroon. Among the best documented is its practice by the Mambila people of

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Methods of divination

behavior (Greek murmēx, 'ant' + manteía, 'prophecy') nggàm: by spider or crab behavior (Mambila nggàm, 'divination') ophidiomancy/ophiomancy: by snake behavior

Methods of divination

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Divination

Attempt to gain insight into a question or situation through magic or the supernatural

attempts to tell the future by interpreting the changes in position of various objects as caused by a freshwater crab through the practice of nggàm.

Divination

David Zeitlyn

British anthropologist

extensively on divination especially the form known as spider divination or nggam. David Zeitlyn was born in 1958 in Cambridge, England.[citation needed]

David Zeitlyn

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Iban culture

Culture of Dayak people in Southeast Asia

Singkam Nggam All these types are played by drummers on the open air verandas during the celebration of the Gawai Burong festival. The Singkam Nggam music

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African divination

2020), and in the forest zone spiders are widely used in the form called nggam. One method utilised by the Zandé people, is the poison-chicken method,

African divination