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An elderly woman then plunges her three times into the river (a slightly different practice obtains in some places whereby only the girl’s buttocks are made to touch the surface of the running water). This is her introduction to the spirit of the river.

• Source: Sarpong, Peter. Girls’ nubility rites on Ashanti. Tema: Ghana Pub. Corp., 1977.
• Culture: Akan
• Location: Africa