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Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People; The Ibibios of Southern Nigeria by Mrs D Amaury Talbot (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... witnessed other jujus without permission and were killed for it. Therefore she also must die.' Whereon they fell upon the woman and slew her on the spot. When the other side saw that she was already dead, they said: 'We will longer belong to this juju. It is wrong to kill a woman without her husband's permission.' On that they fell upon the murderers and slew seven of them; after which they ran and hid themselves in the bush. When a little time had passed, the fugitives talked together over all that had happened, and said to one ather: ' Now that we have killed our brothers of the juju, of what use to live any longer? Let us rather slay ourselves also.' To this they agreed, so each man fell upon his machet and died in the bush by himself. When the catastrophe was ised abroad, the people of neighbouring towns came to Idua and asked the surviving townsfolk: 'What is the cause of this that we hear? Never did we see such a thing before! If, therefore, you do t pay a fine of one cow to each town all of us will join together and kill the remainder of you; because you Iduans have offended against our rule. If there was a dispute about a woman who had kinsfolk to take her part, you should t have killed her, but have bidden her family ransom her at the price of ather who was kinless and about whom, therefore, there would have been trouble. Had you done so, all the men w dead would have been alive to-day!' So Idua was forced to pay a cow to each of the neighbouring towns in order that the palaver might be settled, for the Iduans were t strong eugh to withstand all those who had joined together against them. Ibibios are perhaps unusually bloodthirsty, for crimes of violence were so frequent that for months aft...

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Rarebooksclub.Com
ISBN-10
1151271047
ISBN-13
9781151271044
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115723190

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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Author
Mrs D Amaury Talbot

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Out-Of-Print Date
10/11/2016
Date of Publication
17/05/2012
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Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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