Bryan Roe : a soldier of the cross : missionary travels and adventure in West Central Africa (1896)
Johnson, Charles R., d. 1899 · London : Charles H. Kelly · leaf 234
226 BRYAN ROE: wooden images in front, which are generally plenti- fully decorated with the blood of fowls offered in sacrifice ; while inside the house there is usually to be found a small pot of water and a few kola-nuts, offerings to the god. Devil houses are seldom, if ever, built within the… … DEVIL HOUSE. company, and whenever a man erects a dwelling he builds the fetish house outside in the hope that his Satanic majesty will take up his residence there, and not interfere with the occupants within the compound walls. Markets abound on every side, and here the vendors seem to possess…
Roe, Bryan, 1859-1896 · Wesleyan Methodist Church · Methodist Church · Missionaries
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