. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . r will steal them. Still, after all, physical deanliihad no connexion with god-liness—or rather, ritualpurity—until the use ofwater had establishedthem both upon commonground. On the Ran Salla (dayof the prayer) those whocan afford clean clothes,or better still, new ones,don them, having previ-ously censed9 and scentedthem over a wooden framein shape something like around beehive (Fig. 13).. Lelle (henna) is daubed Fig. 13.—A Frame over which Clothes v are hung, a Pot of Incense being upon people and certainplaced insid
. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . r will steal them. Still, after all, physical deanliihad no connexion with god-liness—or rather, ritualpurity—until the use ofwater had establishedthem both upon commonground. On the Ran Salla (dayof the prayer) those whocan afford clean clothes,or better still, new ones,don them, having previ-ously censed9 and scentedthem over a wooden framein shape something like around beehive (Fig. 13).. Lelle (henna) is daubed Fig. 13.—A Frame over which Clothes v are hung, a Pot of Incense being upon people and certainplaced inside , . animals—but not uponthe houses, I believe, although this is the case inMorocco 10—the stain being applied and protected byrags which are left upon the skin for some is no doubt that this practice was originally intro-duced as a preventive against evil influences, but theHausas do not recognise this. Haj Ali says that the borihave no connexion whatever with henna ; the bori sacri-ficial animal is not stained, and there is no rule either for or. PILGRIMAGES AND FESTIVALS 237 against its use by the Masu-Bori. But the people of oldused to do it instead of crying when there was a death inthe house, he says, and this seems to point to an idea ofprotection in its use. The women at the Salla even staintheir hair, this being to protect them against the heatof the sun, which will make them ill otherwise. Certaindomestic animals are also stained; horses, donkeys, andcattle have spots on their foreheads and noses, and uponall four fetlocks, while sometimes there is an imprint of ahand upon the rump. Dogs and cats also may receivesimilar attentions. Upon the Jajiberi, or eve of the Salla, the men andwomen put antimony upon their eyelashes, and theWomen stain their teeth with walnut or swak. It issupposed that the antimony drives out sickness fromthe eyes to the corners during the night, and so it can bewiped off in the morning. Antimony is often used,therefore, e
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