The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa (1914)
Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915 · London, Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd · leaf 210
he stealing of tlje meat is said to drive away all pastmisfortune, and to prevent the occurrence of fresh evils.3It is just possible that it symbolises the lightning,4 butit has certain resemblances to a rite even now found inMorocco, in which girls steal a doll—dressed in a pointedbonnet—from each… … 15-—Looking towards Carthage.16.—The Shrine oi Sidi Bu ] Hassan. MAGIC IN THE FIELDS-AGRICULTURE [9] than a war dance, which it seems to be now in Nigeria.Another man says that it is performed simply to keeppeople awake, because it would not do to sleep at sucha time. But this seems a quite…
