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- Okonkwo consulted a medicine man who told him that an ogbanje was tormenting them. An ogbanje is a “wicked” child who continually re-enters its mother’s womb only to die again and again, causing its parents grief. A medicine man mutilated the dead body of Ekwefi’s third child to discourage the ogbanje ’ s return.
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Okonkwo consulted a medicine man who told him that an ogbanje was tormenting them. An ogbanje is a “wicked” child who continually re-enters its mother’s womb only to die again and again, causing its parents grief.
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Now she lies suffering with fever while Okonkwo gathers leaves, grasses, and barks for medicine. Ezinma has survived many periods of illness in her life, and people have considered her an evil ogbanje, a child who dies young because she is possessed by an evil spirit that reenters the mother's womb to be born again. But she has lived much ...
Okonkwo 's wife Ekwefi lost nine of her children and the medicine man told Okonkwo it was because of an ogbanje. Finally Ezinma is born to Ekwefi, and Ezinma lives although she goes through...
A medicine man called Okagbue had examined Ezinma the year before and was convinced that Ezinma was an ogbanje (a changeling child) who had buried her iyi-uwa (a special stone that linked her to...
Here we see an example of some of the beliefs that the Umuofia hold regarding childbirth and deaths. Although they believe that Ekwefi is cursed with an ogbanje, she fights back with the medicine man's ritual. There is some question as to how much she can actually control the fate of her child.
After the death of Ekwefi’s second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to inquire what was amiss. This man told him that the child was an ogbanje, one of those wicked children who, when they died, entered their mothers’ wombs to be born again.
In her relationship with Okonkwo, Ezinma seems aware that her father's uncommonly loving attitude toward her is partly due to his troubled relationship with the spirit world.
