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XX. Mεnde, Sierra Leone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012
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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.
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- The African Explains Witchcraft
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- Copyright © International African Institute 1935
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page 556 note 1 Ɔpɔtrɔdum = Twi: Apɔtorɔ-dom, Erythrophloeum Guineense, cf. Irvine, F. R., Plants of the Gold Coast, 1930, p. 186.Google Scholar