Bush Spirits
Senufo · deity · Senufo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Spirit-class collective entered as a deity (nature/bush spirits) per schema constraints; sex 'none' as a non-gendered class. 'madebele' (sing. 'madeo') = bush spirits; 'sandobele' = diviners; 'yawiige' = their prescribed brass charms. Sources: Glaze (1981); Met Museum; Wikipedia 'Sandobele'.
Domains
- wilderness bush
- divination fortune
Powers
- to grant fortune or send affliction from the wild
Sources
- The madebele (sing. madeo) are Senufo bush spirits — small, capricious beings of forest and water — who bestow fortune or affliction and are mediated by the women's Sandogo divination society (sandobele), which prescribes brass figures and ornaments to placate them.: Anita J. Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village (1981) (secondary); Wikipedia, 'Sandobele'; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (secondary)