Identifier: banofboridemonsd00trem (find matches)
Title: The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915
Subjects: Hausa (African people) Demonology Dance Ethnology
Publisher: London, Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Yo, Yo, Yo, Yo. The Hausa spirits song is as follows : Leave off plotting, Doguwa. Leave off plotting, Doguwa.(This is the line given with the music in Chapter XVII.). With her white cloth she has come. Our Mother, Wife of Yerro, Our Mother, whom has shecaught ? Whomsoever she seizes, he will lose his hand. Whomsoever she seizes, he will lose his feet (her parti-cular punishments). Leave off plotting, Doguwa, Our Mother, Wife of Kuri, Our Mother, Mother of Us (supposed to be the meaningof Yeme ye moma, which words my informant saidwere Kanuri, a language which he did not speak). Adamari, Wife of Yerro, leave off plotting Doguwa, Leave off plotting, Doguwa, the shouter, Warri jam baruntun Beriberi (? more Kanuri) come, Men of Kano, Carriers of Potash. Leave off plotting, Doguwa, Wife of Kuri, Our Mother, Mother of Us, Praise to God and his Prophet, Chief of Risana, Wife of Kuri (Doguwa, being the firstmarried, is the head wife). Chief of Risana are you, O Doguwa, Doguwa, Wife of Kuri.
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45 and 46.—Doguwa of the City and Dotuiwa of tin- Bush. A doublespirit, wife of Kuri, which paralyses and blinds people. BORI—THE BLACK SPIRITS 335 The song of the Bush spirit is : O Wife of Yerro, Wife of Kuri,Enter quickly. Great is our mother,To-day (she) goes to the bush,(The wife) of Kuri, the wearer of the small cloth.Let us go home and drink sour milk (she looks after cattle),To-day we shall not rest.If Bujaji (a Fulah name for Doguwa) seizes (us)To-day we shall have no sleep.(If) the mother of our house seizes (us)To-day we shall not rest. Strangely enough, very little seems to be known aboutUwal-Gwona in North Africa, although she is of suchhigh rank. The reason is, so I was told, that the Hausas,having no farms, have no occasion to seek her good offices,but if that reason were always acted upon, a good manyof the other spirits would be abandoned also. However,she appears only once a year here, and nothing morecould be found out about her than has been relatedin Chapter X

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