Mani's Beliefs about the Environment
The Mani people have different
beliefs about the environment and the affects it
will have on them. Lots of these beliefs have to
do with blood and death.
For example,
1.
When there is a death in the
community
a.
The people must move to a new and distant
place.
2.
When blood is shed during the birth
of a baby,
a.
They believe this is a cause for the illness
“Dead Blood”.
i.
“Dead blood” can have a great
potential for causing illness
1.
It is “undead blood” because of when
the fresh blood start to smell bad or become dead blood
. The group that has
had a baby born into it must move to a new place before the blood is
"dead".
3.
When or if one of the Mani people
walk in an area where their hair stands on end
or that make them feel uncomfortable,
a.
then they cannot settle there
i.
The Mani people consider that area to be
haunted by an evil spirit
4.
Another example for an unfit
settlement would be where no younger trees grow
a.
is bad because of a spirit that
lives there
5.
Mani people can determine
where a presence of an evil spirits by the areas with dark-colored termite
hills
a.
Cannot be inhabited by the Mani
people.
6.
If there is death or sadness in area
Mani people will not live there also for some reason.
a.
One the Mani people cannot live in a place
where a person has died
i.
The spirit of the dead would bring sickness to
the people living there.
7.
Places where children are crying,
are shocked or ill, must be abandoned
a.
because a spirit might have been
following the group when it moved there.
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