noun

Plural – amakulo

 MEANING.

A charm supposed to draw a neighbour’s harvest into one’s own field.  

EXAMPLE OF USE

Ba na ikulo MEANING to have such a charm.

 

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTION.

ETYMOLOGY:

When working out a ikulo charm, a woman rubs it on a ifwasa and then places the ifwasa in the path. Whoever touches it loses his harvest to the benefit of the charm owner. However, if the passer-by is wily enough, he will simply pick up the charmed ifwasa and throw it into his garden, thus averting not only the loss of his own harvest, but also obtaining that of the charm owner. Also, a man who wants to appropriate his neighbour’s harvest throws in the neighbour’s garden a chip of wood from the loppings of his fitemene. By this proceeding he ‘charms’ away the harvest of his neighbour.