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Luba religion
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The term "mfwintshi" refers to a witch in Luba religion, representing evil and acting as an antithesis to the will of the ancestors. The Luba people, a Bantu-speaking group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have a rich religious system that includes a Universal Creator (Shakapanga), belief in the afterlife, and communion between the living and the dead. Their cosmology also recognizes Leza (Supreme God), various spirits (mikishi or bavidye), and ancestors (bankambo). Religious practices involve prayers, sacrifices, rituals, and divination, with a core emphasis on bumuntu (authentic personhood) and mucima muyampe (good heart).1

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