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 396
at all inappropriate to say thatthese particular spirits are beastly drunk. Mai-Gangaddi (The Nodding One) or Sarikin Barchi(King—should be Queen—of Sleep—because nearly al-ways a female) (48) gives her victims sleeping-sickness.At the dance, she suddenly dozes off in the middle of someact. She… … 47-—Spirits of Drunkenness at Tripoli. 48-—Ba-Toye, the Fire Bori ; Sarikin Kofa, the Leper, and Mai»Gan-gaddi, the Spirit of Sleeping-Sickness. BORI—THE BLACK SPIRITS 339 she will never leave the ring of her own free will (or perhapsshe has not the energy to do so), so when it is time for herto…
