Laduma Madela
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| The left side of Laduma's outfit. |
The left side of Laduma's outfit. Laduma holds the spear now upright for demostration. his hat is from narrow pieces of genet skin at the front and at the back and both sides from the skin of the red Duiker. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The skin of the ox slaughtered on 30th March and the skin of a goat pegged in front of Bafungile's house. To the right Ziphelaphi. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma, sitting on Bafungile's bed, scraping goat horns to prepare them as medicine containers. He works them on a wooden head rest, turned upside down. In the foreground a very low table with one of the two armlets Madela is preparing from genet skin. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
In Bafungile's house: Two healing methods combined, "inyamazane" and " chasing awya evat ghost or evil spirit" 1. "Inyamazane"= wild animals (remains) i.e. inhale smoke of small parts of burned animals, especially antelops, put in potsherd. This method is called "ukuhogela", i.e. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma demonstrate how he prevents the lightning to strke his kraal by means of a lightning-rod partly smeared with anti-lightning medicine. Madela turns slowly to the four quarters of the globe pointing with the rod towards the heaven. He changes the hands in which he holds the rod. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela has the rod in his left hand and the stone in his right hand. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The round stone from the river smeared both flat sides crosswise with black anti-lightning medicine |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela with the ladle for fetching the clouds during a thunderstorm, "ukuphaka izulu" (to ladle out-as food-the heaven) Cf. "Medizinen", plate 14 and pp. 84, 85. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma in front of the tree Clerodendrum glabrum (Verbenaceae in his neighbour's Mashingeni Khumal kraal. It is a tree which is said never to be striken by lightning. From its branches the lightning-rods are made. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with a magical powerful necklace, iziqu, from the cones of casuarina equisetifolia (casuarinaceae) which the author had bought in 1977 from the Santa Lucia Bay. The pendant is a container, umfece, for snuff-medicine, carved by Laduma Madela from the wood of umthombo. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with his stuff for healing, induku yokwelapha, with the hand of an antbear, isambane, as a crook. (Medizinen, plate 19, pp.92, 93) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with his stuff for healing, induku yokwelapha, with the hand of an antbear, isambane, as a crook. (Medizinen, plate 19, pp.92, 93) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with the "wild calabash"/"Ghost calabash", isigubhu somoya, made from a hollowed out wart pumpkin, unkonko. It was still "clean", i.e. without medicine. In order to catch the wind or to provoke strong wind it has to be filled with medicine. (cf. "Medicinen", plate 13, right and pp. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Medicines for provoking death by magic, umbhulelo. Top: A. 7cm long twig of the small shrub umbheza, andrachne ovalis. Madela also calls it umgwazucaca, i.e. "He who kills to such and extent that dead people lie around everywhere-- left: Blood from umdlebe, ca. 3x3 cm, i.e. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Good Friday 1979: Madela presents a spear of the type isijula which he had forged and treated with medicines to three men who had ordered it. They intended to kill with it a " baboon", be it an animal or a human baboon, who used to milk their cows at might. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Sarturday before Easter Sunday 1979: Ziphelaphi and Laduma in front of the Piper which the author had hired at Vryheid for a round flight. Unfortunately the weather was bad so that it was impossible to fly over the Madelas' kraal. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Ziphelaphi, Susa, Laduma, Mr. Bob Redman (Administrator of Ceza Hospital) and the pilot Mr. Sanders in front of the Piper on Vryheid Air Port |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Little girls from Laduma's kraal fetch water for washing in a canal leading downhill from well. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma sits on Bafungile's bed in front of "Zauberei im Zululand" and Die Bantubibel des Blitzzauberers Laduma Madela" and many albums with photos by the author in his kraal. He wears a necklace of roughly made wooden beads (made by himself). |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
In Bafungile's house. On the last day of the author's stay in April 1979 the Madelas and Ziphelapi thanked the author for the flight and honoured her with beer, utshwal, and dances. From left to right: Ziphelaphi, Susa' wife Totoyi and Susa(drinking). Cf. "Susa", plate 22 bottom and p.51 |