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Musuyidie, lit. something to remove evil; a cloth with this design stamped upon it lay beside the sleeping couch of the King of Ashanti, and every morning when he rose he placed his left foot upon it three times.. Nyame, biribi wo soro, ma no me ka me nsa. ‘O God, everything which is above, permit my hand to touch it.’ This pattern was stamped on paper and hung above the lintel of a door in the palace. The King of Ashanti used to touch this lintel, then his forehead, then his breast, repeating these words three times.
- Source: Rattray, R. S. Religion and art in Ashanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.
- Culture: Akan
- Location: Africa