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Charles William Hobley. Bantu Beliefs and Magic
Bantu Beliefs and Magic
Table of Contents
PART I. NATURAL RELIGION
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. SPIRIT BELIEFS
CHAPTER II. SACRIFICE
CHAPTER III. SACRED STONES OR VILLAGE SHRINES IN KIKUYU
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE HARVEST, ALSO PLANTING CEREMONIAL
CHAPTER V. CIRCUMCISION CEREMONIAL
CHAPTER VI. DEATH AND BURIAL CEREMONIAL
CHAPTER VII. THE CURSE AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS
(a) Thahu and its Connection with Circumcision Rites, etc
(b) Purification and Blessing
(c) The Dying Curse
CHAPTER VIII. SUPERSTITIONS REGARDING CHILDREN AND WOMEN
PART II. MAGIC
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. THE GUILD OF SMITHS IN KIKUYU AND UKAMBA
CHAPTER II. THE EVIL EYE
CHAPTER III. KIKUYU MAGIC AND MAGICIANS
CHAPTER IV. MISCELLANEOUS MAGICAL PRACTICES
PART III. MISCELLANEOUS
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. THE CONSTITUTION AND WORKING OF COUNCILS AMONG THE KIKUYU
CHAPTER II. LAWS OF COMPENSATION FOR MURDER
CHAPTER III. CEREMONIAL OATHS
CHAPTER IV. WAR AND PEACE
CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS
Sundry Beliefs
CHAPTER VI. LEGENDS
CHAPTER VII. DANCES
CHAPTER VIII. WOMEN AS A FACTOR IN TRIBAL ORGANISATION
CHAPTER IX. SOME GENERAL REMARKS
CHAPTER X. EAST AFRICA AFTER THE WAR
L’ENVOI
GLOSSARY
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Charles William Hobley
e-artnow, 2022
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Description of a Sacrifice at a Sacred Fig Tree in Kikuyu. (Witnessed by the Author.)—The elders first took some sugar cane and poured a little on each side and in front of the tree, praying at the same time. The sacrificial ram was then strangled, held up before the tree, and its throat pierced. The blood was collected in a cow’s horn and a little poured out on each side of the tree and allowed to trickle down the trunk. At this stage of the proceedings another prayer was uttered.
A strip of skin and fat running from the throat of the carcase down to its belly, and including the genitals, was then cut off and hung up on a small branch projecting from the tree. The elders now prayed again. After this the ram was dismembered and the feast took place.
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