Show FOOD FOR SPIRITS SPIRIT young children considered dainties in west africa so when great man dies the little ones with slaves slave are killed and burled buried with him some strange superstitions of west african negroes are arc described by P L hengely in the london dally daily mall mail if he will the juju man witch doctor of west africa can tell you that when uhn n R ninn man dies his spirit or spirits will behind and wander about the earth while he will go away it Is not clear what Is meant by he us as distinct from his spirits or where lie goes when lie he does go away 1 I but obviously it Is to a place where if lie be a big chief lie will want servants to serve him and therefore when lie dies slaves are killed and also young children but these latter are killed for another purpose as the following remarks will show these wandering spirits are of two kan kinds 11 8 good or nt at least harmless I 1 milled dapples Dup pies and evil ones known as gumbis Jum bis cupples Dup pies ples the juju man aill ill tell you can be seen in various forms there used to be a on a bench in southern nigeria which fell into disuse because ns as irany white I lite men ii ikid ed to know queer ducer bluck black fortus forms sometimes like mon monkeys heys used to run about the veranda and the rooms at making DIRl drIg weird noises they did if no ID harm being as every nathe know knew cupples dup ples the junial jun ibl however Is a terrible thing so awful that whoever sees one goes niad mad I 1 his is home is in the silk cotton or I 1 ceba tree and he kills the person who I 1 cuts one town down blacks of educated I 1 west indian descent will never cut down a sill silk cotton tree Jum gumbis bis cat dead bodies preferring those of children though there Is nothing they like better than rice hence when a man or woman dies a quantity of rice Is placed near the grae under a cover resembling a ca candle extinguisher only with holes in fit tle the sides tile the object of the holes Is to enable the thin hungry gumbl to enter the receptacle where he gorges himself until he Is too fat to get out I 1 1 I 1 araan A fresh supply of rice is dally daily placed under the dome to make up tip for what the lie jum gumbis bis have paten eaten there are lots of rat rats and ground pigs in west africa tile process Is kept up until I 1 the ninth day alien hen it a wake Is held and the lie gumbis Jum bis are brhen away by noisa and fee ack native magic that is one way of keeping the jum ills front from the dead cut but it if n great ninn dies lie has another of heing being undisturbed for then young children are arc killed and the gumbl ants them rather than the old person many ears ngo ago alien hen king take died the then governor in the h hope of preventing any secret slaughter ordered that he donld have a grand fi merill white man fashion it was n grent great d day ay iy for the he natives white hite nt tendIng the alli burial in the center of the royal roval coln coin prad bolind oo lind where by order they remained until the grave was filled up allm I 1 ait dalte liliie precautions nt daod alp ilp id of night tie the juju priests had their Ivi ings take wn dug due up lip rind and re 1 aled in natle nathe fi ishon together zether to with his slaves and several children 1 subscribe for the box elder news |