. The Baganda . risoners who had their clothing taken from them at thesacred tree were the first to be killed. Each prisoner wasgiven beer to drink before he was executed ; if he refused thedrink, it was poured over his head, and this was thought tohave the same effect upon the ghost, as though he haddrunk The sacrificial place Nakinzire, on the Seguku hill inficial place Busij-Q, had a temple and a medium, who was the son of^^^ a princess, and ought therefore to have been put to deathat birth according to the restrictions placed upon princesses. IX RELIGION 335 The reason for thi
. The Baganda . risoners who had their clothing taken from them at thesacred tree were the first to be killed. Each prisoner wasgiven beer to drink before he was executed ; if he refused thedrink, it was poured over his head, and this was thought tohave the same effect upon the ghost, as though he haddrunk The sacrificial place Nakinzire, on the Seguku hill inficial place Busij-Q, had a temple and a medium, who was the son of^^^ a princess, and ought therefore to have been put to deathat birth according to the restrictions placed upon princesses. IX RELIGION 335 The reason for this choice of a medium is said to havebeen the fact that a prince, Kungubu, took his sister towife, and had a son by her; the child was born at theplace Nakinzire, and the river Mayanja took its rise thereowing to the birth. The medium was thought to bepossessed by a leopard; he growled and rolled his eyesabout like an angry beast when under the influence of theleopard ghost. Near the temple stood the sacred FIG. 53.—SACRED POTS, FROM WHICH MEDICATED BEERWAS GIVEN TO VICTIMS ABOUT TO BE PUT TO DEATH. where the prisoners were given the doctored beer to drink,and where the clothing of some of them was taken andhung up. The victims were either clubbed or speared todeath at this sacrificial place. If they were tortured, theirflesh was cut off with splinters of reeds, which were sharpand cut like razors. The flesh was pinched up and cut offover the body, and the victim was afterwards killed. Theexecutions sometimes extended over a week, because theexecutioners became weary and went off to drink beer 336 THE BAGANDA chap. and to talk over what they had done. The bodies werenot removed from the place where they fell; the wild animalsor birds fed upon them ; no relative dared bur}- one who hadbeen given to the sacn- The sacrificial place Kitinda was on the Island Damba,K^dnda^*^^ and was dedicated to crocodiles. There was a temple anda medium, who, when possessed, worke
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