The Introduction Of The Fetish Boofima Into The Country Of The
Imperi Is An Interesting Point As It Shows That These Different
Tribes Have The Same Big Ju-Ju.
Similarly, Calabar Egbo can go into
Okyon, and will be respected in some of the New Calabar districts,
but
Not at Brass, where the secret society is a distinct cult.
Often a neighbouring district will send into Calabar, or Brass,
where the big ju-ju is, and ask to have one sent up into their
district to keep order, but Egbo will occasionally be sent into a
district without that district in the least wanting it; but, as in
the Imperi case, when it is there it is supreme. But say, for
example, you were to send Egbo round from Calabar to Cameroon.
Cameroon might be barely civil to it, but would pay it no homage,
for Cameroon has got no end of a ju-ju of its own. It can rise up
as high as the Peak, 13,760 feet. I never saw the Cameroon ju-ju do
this, but I saw it start up from four feet to quite twelve feet in
the twinkling of an eye, and I was assured that it was only modest
reticence on its part that made it leave the other 13,748 feet out
of the performance.
Doctor Nassau seems to think that the tribal society of the Corisco
regions is identical with the leopard societies. He has had
considerable experience of the workings of the Ukuku, particularly
when he was pioneering in the Benito regions, when it came very near
killing him.
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