noun

Plural - amakulo

MEANING.

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

EXAMPLE OF USE

Bana balikwata ikulo MEANING Mrs Chitoshi has the ikulo charm.

SYNONYM/SIMILAR WORD/COMPARE/CONTRAST

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ETYMOLOGY:

When working out a likulo charm, a woman rubs it on a lifwasa and then places the lifwasa 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 lifwasa 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 garden a chip of wood from the loppings of his fitemene. By this proceeding he ‘charms’ away the harvest of his neighbour.

OTHER RELATED WORDS/USES/SOURCES/FUNCTION.

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FIGURATIVE SPEECH/IDIOMS/PHRASES/COLLOQUIAL USE/EXPRESSIONS.

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PROVERBS.

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