During this unusual chance to visit local magicians in Zanzibar, you will explore a lot of superstitions. Magic arrived in Zanzibar via Africa, Arab, Iran and India. The people of Zanzibar learned superstition from them.
There are three kinds of superstitions in Zanzibar.
- Mwanga: A very bad person jealous of other peoples progress that hinders them at night
- Wizard: A person without moral conviction that thinks they can do anything they like and can fly by using a winnowing basket
- Mganga: A person that may treat many diseases using superstition and magic potions.
Giningi is a special meeting place where mwangas and wizards stay as a “head office” of sorts and is a place where you can see a lot of people who died, but are still alive.
At Giningi, people eat food without salt, people are enslaved without clothes and are forced to hard labor.
On this tour you will see live how magicians can: light a fire by using water and local medicine, throw out a piece of paper and make it reappear in the room, change paper into money, change coconut thatch into a snake, etc. an amazing trip that will tempt you to believe what local people believe; you yourself will decide what is true or not.
Please don’t miss this tour!
Time: on demand.