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It is also said that people began to claim that Buom had been seized by Teny when he stabbed two men dead, left them lying in the sun all day with flies and insects gathering in their mouths and eyes, and then resurrected them, completely healed, with a touch of his baton (dang).

  • Source: Johnson, Douglas Hamilton. Nuer prophets: a history of prophecy from the Upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Oxford ; New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • Culture: Nuer
  • Location: Africa