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*    ɛkokodu [ ˥ ˥ \ ˩ ] (the heart) during

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*    one’s lifetime. When a man dies,

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*    orhiɔ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ] flies away and attaches

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*    itself to the wall like a flying

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*    animal, thus it listens to all that

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*    is said about the deceased and

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*    to the prayers given for his next

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*    life (e.g. when he has been

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*    poisoned, that it may not be

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*    repeated)+, and looks at the

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*    sacrifices offered, the dances

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*    round the ukpafɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] of the

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*    room in which the deceased is

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*    lying, and the oaths sworn by

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*    his wives. Only when the body

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*    is taken to be buried, does the

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*    orhiɔ̃ leave the house. It goes to

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*    ɛɽ̃iʋ̃i [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] and, together with the

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*    man’s ɛhi [ ˩ ˩ ] whom it meets

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*    there, it goes to Osa [ ˩ ˩ ] to

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*    “render account”. (These be-

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*    liefs are said to be no longer

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*    strong nowadays.) When a man

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*    is ill, witches may come and

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*    steal his orhiɔ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ]. They then

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*    transform it at their meeting

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*    into an animal which they kill

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*    and eat. The man whose orhiɔ̃

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ] has been stolen and killed

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*    in this way must die. He lies on

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*    his bed and is delirious ( “talking

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*    at random”), the white of his

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*    eye appears, etc. A man in this

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*    condition can, however, tell the

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*    name of the witch when a certain

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*    strong charm is applied. But

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*    the orhiɔ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ] of such a man is

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*    still supposed to go to ɛɽ̃iʋ̃i

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ], so that the stolen “object”

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*    apparently is nothing but the

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*    victim’s strength to live; orhiɔ̃-

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*    ɽ̃ɛ̃ rie [ ˩ / ˩ / ] “his strength to

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*    live is going away”: he is about

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*    to die (o. fo [ \ ] “is finished” is

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*    also said). (2) zest, power to do

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*    something; orhiɔ̃ ni‿ɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ / ]

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