- An
ọgbanje is a term in
Odinani (Igbo: ọ̀dị̀nànị̀) for what was
thought to be an evil
spirit that
would deliberately plague a
family with misfortune....
- corpse. An
ọgbanje is a
reincarnating evil or
revengeful spirit, that
would deliberately plague a
family with misfortune. In folklore, the
ọgbanje, upon being...
- Emezi's
debut novel, it
tells the
story of Ada, a girl with
multiple ogbanje dwelling inside her. A TV
series based on the
novel is
under development...
-
oneself of an
ogbanje was to find and
destroy its iyi-uwa, a
buried object tying it to the
mortal world. Many
scholars now
believe that
ogbanje stories arose...
-
object from Igbo
mythology that
binds the
spirit of a dead
child (known as
ogbanje) to the world,
causing it to
return and be born
again to the same mother...
-
talisman for the
ọgbanje to
return to the
human world and to find its
targeted family;
destroying the Iyi-uwa cuts the
connection of the
ogbanje and
frees the...
- are just
hasty definitions)
often mix
facts about àbíkú with
facts about ògbánje;
represent àbíkú as
homogeneous across time and space; fail to distinguish...
- “iyi uwa”. the ATR way)).
Ogbanje is an Igbo (Nigeria) term that
means a
repeater or
someone who
comes and departs.
Ogbanje is not a bad
spirit in Igbo...
-
Ekwensu Ikenga Legendary creatures and
concepts Mmuo Ogu na Ofo
Inouwa Ogbanje Topics Chi Ekpe Osu
Inouwa Nze na Ozo
Calendar Sacred places Earth Nri...
-
Nigerian postcolonial era,
Emecheta dedicated the book to her mother,
Alice Ogbanje Emecheta. The
Bride Price was the
first novel Emecheta wrote, but its original...
