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When a woman was going to her field to dig a new plot, or when she intended to sow seed, she carried a little fire with her in the form of hot embers wrapped either in a roll of bark-cloth or in a bundle of grass. With this fire she lit her pipe when resting, but no man or woman might touch it, either to take any for starting a fire or to light another pipe. Should anyone attempt to do so, the woman would come and strike the fire from their hands and trample it down till it was extinguished, lest her ground should become barren or her seed fail.

• Source: Roscoe, John. The Bakitara or Bunyoro: the first part of the report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. Cambridge: The University Press, 1923.
• Culture: Banyoro
• Location: Africa