Anthropological report on Sierra Leone: Anthropological report on Sierra Leone, Part 1, Law and custom of the Timne and other tribes

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Titel:: Anthropological report on Sierra Leone

Autor:: Thomas, Northcote W.

Erscheinungsort:: London

Verlag:: Harrison and Sons

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Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Gesamtdarstellungen und Sammelwerke

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Titel:: Anthropological report on Sierra Leone, Part 1, Law and custom of the Timne and other tribes

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1916

Signatur:: Pn 70703:1:F8

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Titel:: IX. Divination, ordeals, omens

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0 IX.—DIVINATION, ORDEALS, gzrtce. Methods of divination are comparatively numerous, more especially for the discovery of thieves and witches. In the simplest form the thief is cursed: “I have lost and not seen the thief. I give him to you; hold him.” "Lhen the thief and all his family fall sick. The method commonly demands the use of a so-called “ oath medicine,” sena or sean, usually made by diviners or mori- men, They are said to have received upwards of £25 for such a service formerly ; “ medicines ” are now obtainable in two qualities, at £4 and £1 10s, In the Bombali chiefdom is a medieine called ansur (spear), which belongs to a single family, and is inherited in the male line. A woman of the Konte family is said to have caught the medicine in her fishing-net; a small hut was made for it, and the woman dreamed that it was ansur and how it was to be used. It satches witches and big thieves, and the victim “ turns red.” Anyone who is carrying the spear “ turns red,” if rain falls on him, and develops sores, finally losing his fingers and toes. By “turning red ” appears to be meant leprosy. Palm kernels are not to be roasted in a town when ansur comes. Sometimes an accused person swears before a medicine that he is innocent; fire sticks are struck on the ground, and the accused. person curses himself and his children if he is zuilty. When a man wishes to make use of asasa, he gives red kola to the owner, who brings it to the required spot, and puts it before the door with some powder; then the man who has need of the medicine takes a piece of stick and says what crime has been committed, at the same time telling the

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