"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)

Title: "Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)
Performer / Recordist: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers); Composer not specified; Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--South Africa; Folk songs, Sotho; Divination
Description / content note: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the perfomers were actually Sotho.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Southern Sotho
Place of recording: Africa -- South Africa Matatiele
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR018; 12
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:04:16
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134268