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Fingo may refer to:
- Fingo (charm), a Norwegian folk charm supposed to deter burglary
- FinGO (company), a mobile communications company
- Fingo fever, a disease of Victorian Australia
- Fingo (Mfengu), a tribe of South Africa
- Fingo (talisman), a protective charm of the Mijikenda people
- ' Hypotheses non fingo', phrase coined by Isaac Newton
Fingo is a protective talisman of the Mijikenda people in Coast Province, Kenya. Fingo are believed to attract guardian spirits (djinns). It is commonly buried in the kaya (sacred forest). Kaya elders take care of the fingo, which is said to have come from Shungwaya, the ancestral home of the Mijikenda. Considered to be interesting objet d'art, many fingo are stolen, while others are lost. The Giriama use large stones as fingo while other Mijikenda use a large pot of medicine. The pottery vessel contains not only medicine but also magic charms. It serves to protect the kaya and its inhabitants, one buried at the entrance and exit of each kaya.
Usage examples of "fingo".
Sir Isaac Newton says: Hypotheses non fingo, quicquid enim ex phaenomenis non deducitur hypothesis vocanda est, et hypothesis vel metaphysicae, vel physicae, vel qualitatum occultarum, seu mechanicae, in philosophia locum non habent.
Brother Fingo brushed back his hood and chortled while the novice and Malicia fenced for position.
Brother Fingo stared from the note to Brother Francis and back to the note.
Francis picked up the box and started toward the abbey while Fingo returned to his donkey, but after a few paces the novice stopped and called back.
Sometimes, while watching Fingo carve, Francis would sit on a bench in the corner of the workshop and sketch, trying to visualize details of the carving which were, as yet, only roughly hewed in the wood.
Francis picked up the box and started toward the abbey while Fingo returned to his donkey, but after a few paces the novice stopped and called back.
Sometimes, while watching Fingo carve, Francis would sit on a bench in the corner of the workshop and sketch, trying to visualize details of the carving which were, as yet, only roughly hewed in the wood.
On the 21st of January the first general action was fought at Fort Hare and the Fingo village of Abee.
The carving had been done nearly six centuries ago by a sculptor named Fingo, to whom the Beatus Leibowitz not yet canonized had appeared in a vision.
This man was a Cape Colony Kaffir, a Fingo I think, with a touch of Hottentot in him.