7 examples of mandinga in sentences

There seems reason, however, to believe, that a Mandingo or Mandinga-man, is properly the same with an Obi-man.

A late traveller in Brazil gives us the following anecdotes of the Mandinga and Mandingueiro of the negroes in that country.

I could not imagine what had caused his alarm, until he said that it was Mandinga which had been set for the purpose of killing him; and he bitterly bewailed his fate, that at his age, any one should wish to hasten his death, and to carry him from this world, before our lady thought fit to send him.

I judged that the Mandinga was not set for Apollonario, but for the negress whose business it was to sweep the out-house.

She said the Mandinga was placed there to make one of the negresses dislike her fellow-slaves, and prefer her to the other.

The ball of Mandinga was formed of five or six kinds of leaves of trees, among which was the pomegranate leaf; there were likewise two or three bits of rag, each of a peculiar kind; ashes, which were the bones of some animals; and there might be other ingredients besides, but these were what I could recognize.

I made this serious matter of the Mandinga, from knowing the faith which not only many of the negroes have in it, but also some of the mulatto people.

7 examples of  mandinga  in sentences