Witch Doctors in Africa
The witch doctors (a misnomer) in Africa are known as 'sangomas in southern Africa. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first use of the term "witch doctor" to refer to African shamans (i.e. medicine men) was in 1836 in a book by Robert Montgomery Martin (1803?-1868).
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