Initiate
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Then they sit in the common hut and the initiate is called out from the hut and he emerges behind an igba. The cloth of the igba encircling them both, they advance cautiously towards the elders. The leopard careers about and the initiate has to touch it. This he does when the leopard, who makes constant miming attempts to scratch him with his claws, has his back to him. The elders then receive him.
- Source: Downes, Rupert Major. Tiv religion. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1971.
- Culture: Tiv
- Location: Africa