Laying on of hands Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == African traditional medicine == The [[San people]]s of Southern Africa use the laying on of hands as a [[San healing practices|healing practice]]. As described by professor Richard Katz,<!-- not to be confused with the article Richard Katz (writer) --> the healers of the [[ΗKung people|!Kung people]] lay their hands on a sick person to draw the sickness out of them and into the healer in a "difficult, painful" process.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Katz |first=Richard |date=Winter 1982 |title=Accepting "Boiling Energy": The Experience of !Kia-Healing among the !Kung |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/eth.1982.10.4.02a00050 |journal=Ethos |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=344β368 |doi=10.1525/eth.1982.10.4.02a00050 |issn=0091-2131 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page