Abstract
El-Zar is one of the most popular traditional healing cults in Egypt, and it seems to have been introduced into the country from Sudan through Ethiopia. The word “Zar” means, in Amharic, the “devil” or “spirit”. Literally, the word is a derivative of the verb “to visit” and implies the intermittent visit of some wicked spirit. In practice, it generally connotes the gathering of some women, headed by a woman called “kodia”, with the purpose of exorcizing evil spirits.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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