witch-

But few people were killed at these feast, though there was a great Ingomboco, or witch-hunt, and many were smelt out by the witch- doctors as working magic against the king.

On the last night before the forming of the Ingomboco, the witch- doctors, male and female, entered the kraal.

And this party swept the faces of certain of the king's councillors, naming them guilty of the witch- work.

At length it drew on to evening, and the last company of the witch- doctors did their work, smelling out some of the keepers of the Emposeni, the house of the women.