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taua ni mwi

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taua ni mwi

n. (1) keeping accounts, register, account book, diary, memoirs, registration, etc.
see taua mwin te...
n. (2) te taua ni mwi: magical charm, etc., to keep for self the love of an absent one.
vt. tauanimwia: to keep, to attach (person) by means of charms, magical incantations.

Topics: Spirits, myth and belief