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Updated: May 9, 2025
The passenger-boy who had guzzled the gin was no end of a big duke witch-doctor, and all that, with a record of about three hundred murders to his tally and he had the cheek to send a blooming ambassador to say things, and threaten, to try and get the ju-ju back. Of course, if the original sportsman had come himself to make his ugly remarks, I'd soon have stopped his fun.
Oh, if they would only treat him, Moussa Isa, as an adult, and send him to the Aden Jail to hard labour. There folk knew a Somali from a Hubshi; a gentleman of Afar and Galla stock, of Arab blood, Moslem tenets, and Caucasian descent, from a common nigger, a low black Ethiopian, an eater of men and insects, a worshipper of idols and ju-ju.
By sheer weight of blows the whites kept the enemy from climbing through the windows, and so long as the windows were not stormed, the iron house was safe to them. And presently one of the head-men blew his boatswain's whistle, and the attack drew off. Promptly Kettle reloaded his revolver and stepped out into the open. "Now," he said, "you seen my ju-ju? You savvy him too-big ju-ju?
If you see anything you do not understand, you promptly set it down as ju-ju. Similarly chop is food, and also the act of feeding. "What did you want it for? Did you know it was valuable then?" "Oh, no! I thought it was merely a whitewashed carved wood god, and I wanted it just to dash to some steamer skipper who had dashed me a case of fizz or something. You know?" "Yes, I see. Go on.
Tattooing, in the true sense of the word, they do not use much, but they paint themselves, as the mainlanders do, with a red paint made by burning some herb and mixing the ash with clay or oil, and they occasionally whether for ju-ju reasons or for mere decoration I do not know paint a band of yellow clay round the chest; but of the Bubi secret society I know little, nor have I been able to find any one who knows much more.
Since 1893 I have been collecting information in its native state regarding Fetish, and I use the usual terms fetish and ju-ju because they have among us a certain fixed value a conventional value, but a useful one. Neither "fetish" nor "ju-ju" are native words.
Now, I may remark, white cloth is anathema to the Missions, for it is used for ju-ju offerings, and a rule has to be made against its being given to the unconverted, or the missionary becomes an accessory before the fact to pagan practices, so white cloth the old woman was told she could not have, she had been given plenty of garments for her own use and that was enough.
The Calabar natives are notably behindhand in their medical methods, depending more on ju-ju than the Bantus. In a case of rheumatism, for example, instead of ordering the hot bath, the local practitioner will "woka" his patient and extract from the painful part, even when it has not been wounded, pieces of iron pot, millipedes, etc., and, in cases of dysentery, bundles of shred-up palm-leaves.
She had taken his hand and was holding it. "We were happy then. Let's begin again and let this be our second honeymoon, and we won't quarrel once will we?" "No, we won't," said Jones. She slipped down into the chair beside him, pulled his arm around her and held up her lips. "Now you're kissing me really," she murmured; "you seemed half frightened before Ju-ju, I want to make a confession."
You'd have to write a masterpiece like 'She's my Ju-Ju Baby' or some such gem to get the 'hit' and the money. But the songs are fine, and they'll take with cultured hearers. We'll get them introduced by good singers, of course, and they'll be favorites soon for the concert stage, and for parlors." Billy saw a good deal of Cyril now.
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