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[M]erely by touching or breaking the land altar in a household belonging to some big patriarch or chief ... a slave or dependent belonging to some other person is able to obtain, or in fact to compel, justice. For in this way he places his person under the protection of the god [i.e. spirit] himself, and no man who has the smallest regard for his own well-being as well as that of his house would dare to incur the displeasure and most probably the wrath of his god.
- Source: Henderson, Richard N. The king in every man: evolutionary trends in Onitsha Ibo society and culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
- Culture: Igbo
- Location: Africa