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From this moment, if it is understood that you do not plan to conduct the oracle the next day, you are no longer held to the ritual prescriptions. All the same, one cannot touch the iwa in a state of impurity, that is to say when the prohibitions mentioned above have not been observed.

• Source: Lagae, C. R. The Azande or Niam-Niam: Zande organizations, religious and magical beliefs, family customs. Bruxelles: Vromant and Co., 1926.
• Culture: Azande
• Location: Africa