The Sorcery-Spirit
Foi · numen · Foi traditional religion; continuing · numen
Illness and untimely death are attributed to sorcery, whose agency the Foi personify as a malevolent spirit-power set in motion by human practitioners. Working unseen, it consumes the victim's vitality; countering it demands divination and ritual response. Weiner treats this sorcery complex as inseparable from the circulation of pearl-shell valuables and from the way the Foi account for and settle death.
Domains
- sorcery and witchcraft
- illness and affliction
Powers
- consumes the victim's vitality unseen