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21Among Ruvu-speaking people an additional spirit type, isoka, was believed linked with malaise and community disruptions. 37 It attests across a block distribution of languages from Ruvu to Kilombero, Rufiji-Ruvuma, and Njombe with meanings that often characterize it as having a strong tendency toward ill-will, but as possibly responding positively to supplication.
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22As to its origins, an old Bantu verb going back to at least proto-Forest-Savanna Bantu was the apparent source of the noun isoka. 38 Semantically related forms, with regular sound correspondences, are present widely across Bantu-speaking societies.
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