mutis

Noun

muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)

1. (South Africa) Traditional African medicine.
   • The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 179

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