Several observations concerning the Sibe practice of the deoci and andai rituals of the Khorchin Mongols
2013
Abstract
An analogical type of healing ritual exists in the shaman traditions of the Manchu-speaking Sibes in Xinjiang and of the Khorchin Mongols in western Manchuria. These exoscist rituals, designed for healing a certain type of hysteria among young women, are not reported from elsewhere but these two ethnic groups.
A closer examination of both traditions leads to the conslusion that a Mongolian ritual, itself probably influenced by Manchurian shamanic tradition, was borrowed by the Sibes together with a part of Mongolian vocabulary connected to it.