Mamlambon.

1919 A. V. Dickinson et al. Sel. Cases Native Appeal Court Transkeian Territories IV. (1924) 237 The Supreme Court held that no action lay in a charge of accusing a person of bewitching another. In this case the Plaintiff and all his witnesses say they do not believe in witchcraft or ‘mamlambo’.

1937 B. J. F. Laubscher Sex, Custom & Psychopathol. 32 The Mamlambo demands a sacrifice before she bestows her favours on a man, and this penalty or sacrifice takes the form of someone dying in his family.

1962 W. D. Hammond-Tooke Bhaca Society 285 The snake is perhaps the most sinister of all..familiars, for when it is obtained ‘something must be slaughtered for it—but not a beast or a goat’. This is said to mean that the owner of a mamlambo must kill his father or mother to propitiate it.

1990 J. Knappert Aquarian Guide Afr. Mythol. 150 Mamlambo means ‘the River Mother’; she is the goddess of the rivers of Natal and will appear to those who sacrifice to her.

2015 Daily Sun (S. Afr.) (Electronic ed.) 4 Mar. The three sangomas they have consulted have all warned that the great-gogo's magic mamlambo needs to be dug out of the yard.