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*    uttered during one’s previous re-

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*    incarnation by the injured party

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*    against the offender. Offences

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*    leading to this swearing and

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*    consequent uhuki are e.g. a

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*    man’s not giving his wife food

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*    and clothes, or not having inter-

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*    course with her on the day when

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*    she purifies herself after men-

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*    struation, or a wife’s promiscuous

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*    way of living (so that the

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*    husband forsakes her), or her

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*    omitting to mourn for her de-

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*    ceased husband properly (v. xiɛ̃

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*    [ / ]); uhuki ɔkpokp-ɛe [ ˥ / ˩ ˩ ˩ \ ]

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*    “uhuki (it is that) is troubling

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*    him (or her)”. The “trouble”

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*    caused by uhuki may manifest

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*    itself in very different ways, and

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*    in different degrees of intensity.

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*    A man may refuse to marry and

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*    may hate women, or even be

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*    temporarily impotent or mad;

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*    with a woman it is believed to

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*    be the cause of frigidity and cer-

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*    tain misdemeanours. A sacrifice

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*    can “bring them (i.e. the uhukis)

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*    to sense”: a “doctor” makes

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*    an image representing the hus-

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*    band or wife, respectively, of

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*    the preceding reincarnation, and

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*    makes a sacrifice to it. After-

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*    wards, the image is buried

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*    with the sacrifice (ɔɽe‿uhuki

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ] he buried the uhuki).

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*    The uhuki was said not to be

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*    the dead man (or woman)

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*    himself.

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*uhukpa [ ˥ / ˥ ], [ ˥ ˦ ˦ ] (1) once;

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*    ɽu‿ɛe‿uhukpa [ ˩ / ˥ / ˥ ] do it

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*    once (and also: “at once”).

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*    (2) at once; ikɛk-ɔɽe wamu bũ-

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*    hukpa [ ˥ ˩ / ˩ ˥ ˩ / / ˥ ] his bicycle

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*    broke at once.

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*uhuʋ̃ova [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] sickness (general

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*    term); uhuʋ̃ova lɔɣɔ ʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]

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