Bless

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Those who dispose of the bodies carry, attached to their girdle, a palm-leaf, and after depositing the body they touch themselves with the leaf, saying, ‘Let all the evil of this man, which might infect me, follow him.’

• 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