Thackeray suggests that the Melikane therianthropes are associated with both trance and the principle of sympathetic hunting magic In 2005, in the journal Antiquity, Francis Thackeray suggests that there is even a photograph of such rituals, recorded in 1934 at Logageng in the southern Kalahari, South Africa.
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In the Brandberg in Namibia, in the so-called " White Lady " panel recorded by the Abbe Henri Breuil and Harald Pager, there are " symbolic wounds " on the belly of a gemsbok-like therianthrope ( catalogued as T1 ), which might relate to the principle of sympathetic hunting magic and trance, as suggested by Thackeray in 2013.