| 释义 |
‖ ogbanje|əʊgˈbænʒiː|
[Ibo.]
(See quots.) Also attrib.
1958C. Achebe Things fall Apart ix. 68 The child was an ogbanje, one of those wicked children who, when they died, entered their mothers' wombs to be born again. Ibid. 68 Okonkwo had called in another medicine-man who was famous in the clan for his great knowledge about ogbanje children. 1976CRC Jrnl. July 18/1 His daughter Aku-nna is so thin and delicate that it is even suggested that she might be an ‘ogbanje’, a ‘living dead’, a child only on loan to this world who will be called back to the other world while still young. |