Medicine people are important spiritual healers. They have become popular with music therapists and sound healers, yoga and meditation practitioners. They have become popular with music therapists, sound healers and yoga practitioners. Defrocked priests and deacons commonly function as diviners, who are the main healers. Charmers there mainly acted as magicians and healers. Religious leaders also reported an increase in adherence to traditional religion and shamanic healers. Effeminate men in Ndebele society would often become healers and spiritual leaders. The Phiri are associated with the kings and aristocracy, the Banda with healers and mystics. Bishops became known as spiritual healers, or physicians of the soul. James Randi often writes on the issue of fraud by psychics and faith healers. These were common folk healers who employed mysticism, amulets and incantations at their trade. Most sick people turned to local healers and used folk remedies. Many sufferers try to cure themselves with the help of traditional healers. The more colourful peddlers were those that doubled as performers, healers, or fortune-tellers. Mahu are valued as teachers, caretakers of culture, and healers, such as Kapaemahu.