| 单词 | medicine murder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmedicine murder medicine murder n. (in Africa, esp. in Lesotho) murder committed to obtain parts of the body for magic; ritual murder. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing for specific reason > [noun] > to obtain (part of) body headhunting1817 burkism1829 burking1831 medicine murder1952 1947 Times 25 Oct. 3/5 Seventeen Africans were sentenced to death in two cases..here today for committing murder for ‘medicine’.] 1952 Basutoland 1951 (H.M.S.O.) ix. 57 During 1951 fourteen trial cases..were heard by the High Court. Two of these cases dealt with the crime known as Medicine Murder. 1988 E. W. Brown Interval in Afr. vi. 324 Some of us have been reading about medicine murder and how ingrained traditions and superstitions are not easily eradicated. < as lemmas |
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