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Volume 8 - April 1935

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Page 6 of 7

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  • AFR volume 8 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    21 August 2012, pp. f1-f6
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The African Explains Witchcraft

  • XVIII. Adaŋme (Dialect of Odumase)

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    21 August 2012, pp. 554-555

  • Hialɔ, aze, ayε, abosiami, Hexe; Hialii, azetsεme, ayεtsεme, abosiamii, Hexen; Hiami, Hexenkunst; Azeti, abosiam ti, Hexenmedizin.

    Man sagt, wenn jemand am Hexen ist, so sieht man ihn brennen; wenn aber die Person nur ein wenig brennt, ist sie am Erlöschen. Man sagt, dass diese Leute eine gewisse Kraft in sich haben, mit der sie dies tun. Um zu behexen, haben manche Leute Schlangen, Pferde, Antilopen oder irgendwelche anderen Tiere. (Auf diesen Tieren reiten sie, um Leute zu behexen.) Man sagt, dass, wenn jemand beim Ausüben der Hexenkunst ist, er auf dem Kopfe geht und durch geschlossene Türen eintreten kann.

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  • AFR volume 8 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    21 August 2012, pp. b1-b2
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The African Explains Witchcraft

  • XIX. Lelemi (Lefana)

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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.

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The African Explains Witchcraft

  • XX. Mεnde, Sierra Leone

  • M. K. Curley
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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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  • AFR volume 8 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    21 August 2012, pp. f1-f2
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