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Before setting out the wife rubs her body with camwood and provides herself with a ball of chalk and a small calabash of wine, which must be drawn fresh from the tree and not allowed to touch the ground until it has been placed before the emblems of the cult.

  • Source: Meek, Charles Kingsley. Law and authority in a Nigerian tribe: a study in indirect rule. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970.
  • Culture: Igbo
  • Location: Africa