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XIX. Lelemi (Lefana)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

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Obokpine witch; Kabɔ, witchcraft; Kɔniŋdzi, witch medicine.

Witches are persons who can kill other persons secretly. They need no gun nor any visible thing for this purpose. Witches are persons just like any other person. Men, women, as well as children can become witches. One may become a witch whether one likes to become one or not. Natural witches are born and others become it by specially prepared food.

Witches kill people. They suck blood. They fly about. They can get the form of any animal they like. They ride on the back of animals to practise witchcraft. They can disappear or become invisible to ordinary men. They can enter and leave any closed room. They destroy crops in revenge. They suck the blood of their sacrifice and share the meat of his spirit to be cooked for food.

Type
The African Explains Witchcraft
Information
Africa , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1935 , pp. 555 - 556
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1935

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References

page 555 note 1 As spoken at Gyeasekaŋ (Boem, Togoland).