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    uttered during one’s previous re-
    incarnation by the injured party
    against the offender. Offences
    leading to this swearing and
    consequent uhuki are e.g. a
    man’s not giving his wife food
    and clothes, or not having inter-
    course with her on the day when
    she purifies herself after men-
    struation, or a wife’s promiscuous
    way of living (so that the
    husband forsakes her), or her
    omitting to mourn for her de-
    ceased husband properly (v. xiɛ̃
    [ / ]); uhuki ɔkpokp-ɛe [ ˥ / ˩ ˩ ˩ \ ]
    “uhuki (it is that) is troubling
    him (or her)”. The “trouble”
    caused by uhuki may manifest
    itself in very different ways, and
    in different degrees of intensity.
    A man may refuse to marry and
    may hate women, or even be
    temporarily impotent or mad;
    with a woman it is believed to
    be the cause of frigidity and cer-
    tain misdemeanours. A sacrifice
    can “bring them (i.e. the uhukis)
    to sense”: a “doctor” makes
    an image representing the hus-
    band or wife, respectively, of
    the preceding reincarnation, and
    makes a sacrifice to it. After-
    wards, the image is buried
    with the sacrifice (ɔɽe‿uhuki
    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ] he buried the uhuki).
    The uhuki was said not to be
    the dead man (or woman)
    himself.
    
uhukpa [ ˥ / ˥ ], [ ˥ ˦ ˦ ] (1) once;
    ɽu‿ɛe‿uhukpa [ ˩ / ˥ / ˥ ] do it
    once (and also: “at once”).
    (2) at once; ikɛk-ɔɽe wamu bũ-
    hukpa [ ˥ ˩ / ˩ ˥ ˩ / / ˥ ] his bicycle
    broke at once.
    
uhuʋ̃ova [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] sickness (general
    term); uhuʋ̃ova lɔɣɔ ʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]