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XX. Mεnde, Sierra Leone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

M. K. Curley
M. K. Curley
Affiliation:
Methodist Mission, Kailahun
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All Mεnde people believe that a witch is not bom a witch, but becomes one during the course of his earthly life by something being put inside him. When this happens the person who has been turned into a witch begins to buy leaves with which all witchery is worked. Witchery is very bad that people do to each other cruelly during the night time, such things as will make them ill, or kills them, or makes women barren, or wounds them. And this comes from the inside of a person.

Type
The African Explains Witchcraft
Information
Africa , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1935 , pp. 556 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1935

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References

page 556 note 1 Ɔpɔtrɔdum = Twi: Apɔtorɔ-dom, Erythrophloeum Guineense, cf. Irvine, F. R., Plants of the Gold Coast, 1930, p. 186.Google Scholar