marabout

• “Only a few remnants – small stands of trees kept in sacred areas called "marabout" - maintain the natural structure of this forest type.”

  Mediterranean woodlands and forests

• “There is also a "marabout," a traditional doctor type guy- most of the animistic aspects of traditional medicine have been replaced with Muslim religious aspects.”

  Archive 2007-03-01

• “I was a sorcerer, a kind of marabout, a direct emissary of the Prophet. ”

  The Teeth of the Tiger

• “Khady says that while it is important to reprimand children - whether it is a parent, teacher or marabout - there are limits.”

  Voice of America: Senegal Child Help Hotline Offers Safety for Victims of Abuse

• “They do it because it is what they know and what their marabout forces them to do.”

  Voice of America: Senegal Quranic School Puts Children First

• “Niasse is the only marabout, or spiritual leader, who teaches here.”

  Voice of America: Senegal Quranic School Puts Children First

• “In a past case outside of Makala, a local marabout, or traditional healer, had determined that the principal was in fact the guilty culprit.”

  Witchcraft in Makala

• “She's worshipped as a marabout, but she hates spells and she does her best to break them.”

  Domenico Quaranta on Gazira's "Hammering the Void"

• “Turning his fanatical wrath upon what thus unexpectedly interposed betwixt him and his object, the Charegite, for such was the seeming marabout, dealt the Nubian a blow with the dagger, which, however, only grazed his arm, while the far superior strength of the Ethiopian easily dashed him to the ground.”

  The Talisman

• “Amid these careless warders glided the puny form of a little old Turk, poorly dressed like a marabout or santon of the desert — a sort of enthusiasts, who sometimes ventured into the camp of the Crusaders, though treated always with contumely, and often with violence.”

  The Talisman

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