Identifier: banofboridemonsd00trem (find matches)
Title: The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915
Subjects: Hausa (African people) Demonology Dance Ethnology
Publisher: London, Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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en if you do not give me anything (in payment).Me, he has called me, has Yaura,Even if you do not give me anything,Yaura will be the master of my house (i.e. her husband pro tern., probably while he has money).My name in childhood, they called me (i.e. was) Yaura,The Beriberi in play they called me Yaura,The Filani in play they called me Yaura.My name in the register (of Jan Gari) is Baba-da-Rai Yam Musa (Father is alive, Son of Moses).Oh dear! Yam Musa, Musan Gaya, and Abubakar (are your friends).If it were not night I should follow you. Musan Gaya is a friend of Yaura, and seems now tohave become merged into him. He is also confused withMallam Ali Geshe. Magajin Yaura (Heir of Yaura), Abubakar, orIsmaila, the youngest of the four, is also a patron ofChacha. He makes girls breasts irritate—and possiblyawakens desire within them—the proper sacrifice being asfor Mallam Geshe. At the dance, he rubs himself all over,and seems to have some skin complaint, though not oneas bad as itch.
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■h ~ ■all o«i «-e ° ■?2o c,^s •£> C O, 5 3 — rt QJ Ifl 3 - ~ — -i ^§■■.2 — > * pq 1 BORI—THE YOUTHS 369 His song is : Magajin Yaura, Abubakar,Magajin Yaura, with you I want to do it (the young girls want him and invite him to sleep with them).Magajin Yaura, Ismaila,Magajin Yaura with you I want to do it (i.e. I am for you).I am being sought in the dark, I am found in the light of the moon.Disciple of the young girls, he begs with a calabash for kola-nuts,Abubakar begs, and at the same time he feels their breasts.Abubakar begs, and at the same time he tickles their waists. Kaura causes a man to want another mans wife, andso he raises trouble continually. He also looks after amother at her delivery, and is often invoked by pregnantwomen. At the dance, Kaura goes upon his hands andfeet because Magajiyas husband (Geshe)—his foster-father—is in some way connected with a lion (Zakuwa). His kirari is : I am Kaura (Son of) Mai-saje, I am the son of aconcubin

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