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Jindele

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Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    • Souls from the other world
    • Spirits of those who suffered violent death, who in turn come to pursue and destroy the descendants of their sacrificers
    • Manes
    • Spirits of those sacrificed by hunters of victims
    • Shades of the dead
    • Souls of highwaymen or criminals who incarnate in the bodies of frenzied, barren or obsessed persons, driving them to criminal or harmful acts.
    • fig. Infernal deities. See maiambi.
    Examples
    • đź’¬jindele ja maiambi

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