Nggàm

Nggàm is a type of divination found among many groups in West Cameroon. Among the best documented is its practice by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria, in which the actions of spiders or crabs are interpreted by the diviner.

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Mambila spider divination

Sources

Blench, Roger, and David Zeitlyn. 1989/1990. A Web of Words. SUGIA (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika) 10/11:171-186.

Gebauer, Paul. 1964. Spider Divination in the Cameroons. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum.

Zeitlyn, David. 1987. Mambila Divination. Cambridge Anthropology 12 (1):21-51. NB this also appeared as a chapter in Zeitlyn's PhD which is online Mambila Traditional Religion

and in Zeitlyn, David. 1994. Sua in Somié. Mambila Traditional Religion. Vol. 41, Collectanea Instituti Anthropos. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag.

Methods of divination

Theriomancy	Ailuromancy Alectryomancy Augury Myomancy Myrmomancy Ornithomancy

Bibliomancy	I Ching Bible Homer Virgil

Scrying	Crystal gazing Oculomancy Catoptromancy Hydromancy

Cleromancy	Astragalomancy Favomancy Fortune-telling Opon Ifá Opele Merindinlogun Obi divination Runic magic

Necromancy	Necromancy

Somatomancy	Cephalomancy Chiromancy Podomancy Rumpology

Other	Apophenia Astrology Belomancy Bone divination Esotericism Ifá Kumalak Molybdomancy Rhabdomancy Rhapsodomancy Scapulimancy Taghairm Technomancy Western esotericism

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