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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 446

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o glad of ground-nuts and evenbeer, but does not like any sacrifice, so I was told. Atthe dance, she rolls her buttocks from side to side, andafter having beaten her face and stomach, she stands at thesalute. Lastly she jumps, sneezes, and goes. Her kirari is : I am Nana Tsiwa, the horned one.…

Hausa (African people) · Demonology · Dance · Ethnology

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