. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . 13. 13-—A funeral at —Arab and Hausa graves. DEATH AND THE AFTER-LIFE 129 have a special mausoleum. In Nigeria, too, a chief or arich man may be buried in his own compound, and hiswives and children will be placed there, also a concubineif he has been sleeping with her just before he died, butslaves, unless they have obtained high office—a commonoccurrence in Nigeria—and poor people are buried inshallow graves outside the Any grave, except thatof a chief, may be reopened after some fifteen years orso,
. The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa . 13. 13-—A funeral at —Arab and Hausa graves. DEATH AND THE AFTER-LIFE 129 have a special mausoleum. In Nigeria, too, a chief or arich man may be buried in his own compound, and hiswives and children will be placed there, also a concubineif he has been sleeping with her just before he died, butslaves, unless they have obtained high office—a commonoccurrence in Nigeria—and poor people are buried inshallow graves outside the Any grave, except thatof a chief, may be reopened after some fifteen years orso, for there will be nothing left of the body by then, andanother corpse may be interred, it does not matter nothing valuable is placed in the graves, they are notrobbed, but the bodies of poor people are usually carriedoff by hyenas—or rather by people who have trans-formed themselves into these animals —which dig downuntil under the level of the sticks. It would not bedangerous to step upon a grave, except in North Africa,perhaps, so far as injury by gho
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