Charm

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The players employ special preventive charms and medicines. Females do not touch them. These spiritual qualities lead to a make-believe attitude toward the masked plays: “We know who you are but we pretend we don’t.”

• Source: Ottenberg, Simon. Masked rituals of Afikpo, the context of an African art. Seattle: Published for the Henry Art Gallery by the University of Washington Press, 1975.
• Culture: Igbo
• Location: Africa