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155 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett may be the origin of the word JUJU used here much as the word fetish is south of the equator. A fence made of Kola saplings, planted four or five feet apart, tied together with native string, screens a tree with a piece of cloth wrapt round it, and bottles, wood, and cones of chalk at its root is called EKEJI. OMEY, entrance to AROVIA, a grove sacred to OVIA, Similar to MABILI in the Congo, with chalk marks as above in half circle on the ground in front of entrance. OMEHU is a tree found near most villages with a collection of ant-hills heaped about its roots. They say this is to make women bear children. At IGUSALA there is a double IKHIMI tree growing behind a nicely kept fence, with a strip of cloth round it. Between its buttresses are a pot of water, a drinking cup, shells, the bark of a tree, AWAWA (spoon bill) and goats' heads, and nearly round its base are seats for people to sit upon. While under a little shed, upon a wooden grill, rest great lumps of EKWHA (a kind of pudding made of the bean-like seeds of a tree) being smoked by a fire underneath them. In the forest between ADENYOBA and ITE is a sacred stone called OKUTA. On the Sapoba road there is a tree with the usual mound of earth and cowries in front of it, planted they say to mark the place where the top of Ezomo's ladder fell. The story goes that this great war chief heard it thunder and wanted to know what enemy of the Oba's it was who evidently wished to fight him, so he built a ladder to reac:h up to the heavens. When he and all his people were on the ladder and just getting at the home of thunder, it gave way, and the top end of it fell where the tree is growing, about three miles from Ezomo's house. www.globalgrey.co.uk
156 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett OMEHU, ant-hills placed at foot of tree near any village. Near to these sacred spots you will often find pots of water and cups, or yams or bananas, with the price in cowries against the cup or the food to be sold. I have never known these silent markets abused. The people swear by licking and touching stones, iron, cowries, bits of twisted rope, and the crushed dried leaves of a plant, asking these things to kill them if they are not telling the truth. These swear jujus are called EKHWAÏ, and there is generally an EKHWAÏ in connection with an CISUN. The only fetishes into which nails, etc., are driven which the writer has noticed are two very old ones preserved in the temple to OLUKUN. The EMATON (the thing you keep on digging) is a very important CISUN among the BINI, quite a number were found stuck into the ground near to the King's palace. www.globalgrey.co.uk
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