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The practice of parading the Mbopbo in semi nudity in the market square made the prospective husband sure that she had no abnormalities or deformities which could be hidden under clothes. Apart from these, the public ceremony itself served as a public registration of the marriage and everyone got to know who was being married to whom. The clitoridectomy operation was believed to ease child birth and to curtail the women's sexual urge thereby ensuring her fidelity to her husband. Ideally, a young bride was expected to be a virgin and this was confirmed during the entire process of fallening and clitoridectomv A girl who was not found to be a virgin was not put through Mbopbo and it was a great shame for a young girl not to have undergone the ceremony.
Thus the faculties of metamorphosis and bi~ocalion' are prerequisites for witchcraft. oven or Anwa /lot. m. In the meeting, they sing and pance near the foot of tall trees, particularly the silk cotton tree (Ukim). elon~atin~ as thev dance and measuring their heights with that of the tree They also trv those they want to kill and feast on the blood or 'meat' of those the\ have already killed (Talbot, 1926:2; 200-25; Jeffrey, 1966:98) lt is believed that women are the most important members of this group and the more numerous.
In thts regard, the ordinary ground which allows the liquid to percolate readil1 would be preferred to a cement floor. Similarly, before he takes any food, a piece of such food must be thrown outside for the ancestors which he fondly refers to as fkan{the old ones). 1e may ask whether ancestors cease to exist when the spirit reincarnates. The answer is no. ,ed to assume~ permanent place 1n the realm beyond when it has completed its reincarnation. ;: of those: \\hv are still reincarnating. · ·· · · 54 r_·.