. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . hods are not used nowadays even in religious cere-monies in the districts where matches are easily obtain-able. Burning lenses are sometimes found amongst theArabs of Tunis, but the French are said to confiscate them,probably in the hope of making the people more civilisedthrough the use of their own matches. No match canequal one of French manufacture, of course, as all whohave had the misfortune to use them will agree. Fire has been known to the Hausas ever since theywere created, so there were no legends obtainable a
. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . hods are not used nowadays even in religious cere-monies in the districts where matches are easily obtain-able. Burning lenses are sometimes found amongst theArabs of Tunis, but the French are said to confiscate them,probably in the hope of making the people more civilisedthrough the use of their own matches. No match canequal one of French manufacture, of course, as all whohave had the misfortune to use them will agree. Fire has been known to the Hausas ever since theywere created, so there were no legends obtainable as toits introduction, not, at least, by the people who gave methis information about their early culture. Fire is not abori, nor does a bori dwell in it ( Would a bori wish to beburnt up ? ) but some of the spirits { Ba-Toye) set fireto houses, and burn people. The bori like the smell of theincense, not the fire, although a man could not escape fromthem on account of this, even if he were to sit in a circleof fire, for the bori could fly up above the flame, and come. ii.—Cooking. The girl is an Arab, the woman a —Hausas at work. HABITATIONS AND DOMESTIC LIFE 87 down inside the circle, or else they could go and destroy hispossessions. The Magazawa quench their fires on thedeath of the master of the house, but the MohammedanHausas do not do so. Live charcoal is kept in the earthenware kyanu (seeFig. 4), and it can be carried about in this. It correspondsto the three stones of Hausaland (used also in countryplaces here), and is, in fact, often given the same name,murufu. Should the tenants go out, or be ready for sleep,the ash is raked to one side with an iron implement shapedlike sugar-tongs, and the live coals, having been pusheddown to the bottom, are covered with the ash, and althoughthe embers will live for several hours, it is said that thereis then no danger from fire. Should anyones house bein flames all neighbours would help to put them out, andthey would
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