inyangan.

1826 N. Isaacs Jrnl. 1 Apr. in Trav. E. Afr. (1936) I. vi. 82 The ‘inyangers’, or water doctors, arrived to take us across the river.

1826 N. Isaacs Jrnl. 1 Apr. in Trav. E. Afr. (1936) I. vi. 83 The inyangers from their great muscular power, and experience in their occupation, kept us above the water.

1862 G. H. Mason Zululand xiv. 180 An ‘Enyanga’, as the said professor is called, is a formidable foe; merely as being master of the most deadly poisons in the world.

1946 Archit. Rev. 100 22/1 Before the first stick or stone is cleared the headman has the new site approved and then treated by an inyanga— a specialist in various types of native medicine, a man usually labelled by the ethnocentric European as ‘magician’.

1954 H. Gibbs Background to Bitterness ii. ii. 66 He [sc. Dingaan] decided to spare Owen and a few American missionaries in Natal—the next morning his inyangas told Owen they would be spared.

1970 Golden City Post 28 June Millionaire inyanga Sethuntsa Khotso, who last year threw the bones and successfully tipped Naval Escort, says that Golden Jewel will win the Durban July next Saturday.