Disabled child in sub-Saharan Africa, believed to bring misfortune
This article is about disabled Ghanaian children. For the concept in Mormon cosmology, see Mormon cosmology § Spirit intelligences and God's spirit children.
A spirit child in Ghana is a disabled child who is believed to possess magical powers to cause misfortune.[1] Disability in Ghana is greatly stigmatized and the only way considered acceptable to deal with the problem is to kill them via advice by a witchdoctor.[2] Spirit children are referred to as chichuru or kinkiriko in the Kassena-Nankana district in Northern Ghana.[3] These children primarily come from poor, rural areas.[4] However, if a spirit child is known to be "good" there are no punishments for the child or their family.[3]
Similar practices are also occurring in other places in sub-Saharan Africa.[5] Similar practices include "witch babies in Benin, snake children in Mali and the Ivory Coast, spirit children in Guinea-Bissau, and mingi children in Tanzania".[5]
^Anas, Anas Aremeyaw (10 January 2013). "Spirit Child". Aljazeera.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
^Issues in Sociology and Social Work: Aging, Medical, and Missionary Research and Application: 2011 Edition. ScholarlyEditions. 9 January 2012. ISBN 9781464966767. Retrieved 30 May 2017 – via Google Books.
^ abAllotey, Pascale; Reidpath, Daniel (2001-04-01). "Establishing the causes of childhood mortality in Ghana: the 'spirit child'". Social Science & Medicine. 52 (7): 1007–1012. doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00207-0. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 11266045.
^Bayat, Mojdeh (2014-01-27). "The stories of 'snake children': killing and abuse of children with developmental disabilities in West Africa". Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 59 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1111/jir.12118. ISSN 0964-2633. PMID 24467696.
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