Identifier: sherbroitshinter00alld (find matches)
Title: The Sherbro and its hinterland
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Alldridge, T. J. (Thomas Joshua), 1847-1916
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Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and Co., limited New York, The Macmillan Company
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ring from the effects of the medicine ? Yes. Willhe die ? Yes, and so on. Everybody is perfectly satisfiedwith the decisions, as the belief in the fetish power of theYassi through the images is very great, and it is consideredto be quite infallible. A Yamama informed me that thegreat power of the Minsereh was received by the anointingof it with the Yassi medicine, without which it could notperform its fetish functions. After anointing it was placedby the side of the medicine to communicate with it. Itthen made the Yamama dream ; upon her awakening theimage was to be re-anointed before it was removed fromthe presence of the medicine, and the Yamama was not tospeak to it until it was re-anointed ; afterwards she coulddo so and invoke its fetish influence to prevent whateverwas impending for good or evil. All Poro men can gointo the Yassi house but should any men surreptitiouslyenter who are not of that order the Poro devil will catchthem, take them into the Poro bush, and compel them to
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WW (To face Ai^v 14S.rig. 51.—Ml.NSKkKIl FkIISH ImaCKS ISKI) IN CONNECTION Willi ;;l;. Vassi MiipieiNK, XV SECRET SOCIETIES I49 become members of the fraternity. The Yassi house isalso a kind of hospital for any person of either sex, whowill pay, and who may have been affected by the fetish.The Yassi fetish medicine is available all the year round,excepting during the month of July, when it is closed forvacation. During that month, if there is a patient undertreatment, the Yassi cannot be obtained, but recourse mustbe had to outside remedies. THE TWIN HOUSES, OR SABO. Another kind of fetish for the obtaining of moneyfrom the superstitious is the twin houses, or Sabo, theworking of which is carried out by twins, who may beany two persons of either or both sexes who are actualtwins, or are one of twin children of different families-The elder twin is called the Sau, and the younger theJina, irrespective of sex. It is always necessary, to renderthe fetish medicine efficacious, that it s

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