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Etnografia delle dature in Africa
africa, alkangaudé, bori, datura, Ethiopia, hausa, jimsonweed, khomba, leba shay, marabout, mozambique, senegal, tsongaBy: GIORGIO SAMORINI – Daturas belong to the tropane Solanaceous group of plants, traditionally used in the Old and New World for their intoxicant properties. In Africa two species – Datura stramonium, and D. metel – are used in religious, initiatory, divinatory, magic-therapeutic rites, and also as tools during trials by ordeal, in courts of…