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Assefa Balcha.

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The study makes an attempt to reconstruct the history of the most widely held socio-cultural and religious belief on spiritual entities known alternatively as Jinn, Ganen, Diablos, Saytan, and Aganent. These noxious spiritual beings were believed to be responsible for a range of human illnesses against which diverse kinds of indigenous preventive and therapeutic methods had been employed. Recording disease causations is an important step towards an understanding of the underlying beliefs and attitudes of a community along with its therapeutic preferences to maintain the physical and social wellbeing. The data gathered in this kind of study may well be used as an input for conventional medicine to comprehend and devise appropriate health education and intervention strategy. Making use of both primary and secondary sources the research will shed a ray of light on this existential and ingrained worldview.

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