The Fetish Folk of West Africa
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On one occasion, when my heart had been rent by the dreadful cruelty inflicted upon a certain woman whom I knew very well, who had been charged with witchcraft because of the death of her husband, I addressed the whole population of the town, and after holding forth for 238 THE FETISH FOLK OF WEST AFRICA some time in wrathful denunciation of their unreasoning suspicion, I asked why a man's wives must always be the first to be charged with his death. An elderly chief, rising to his feet, gently ...interrupted me, and using my native name, Mote-ke-ye (Man-who-never- sleeps), he said : "Ah, Mote-ke-ye, I would like to ask one question : Are you a married man ? " I was well aware, when I answered No, that the shrewd old man had routed me. The guilty men looked at one another with a relieved and peculiarly significant smile which said politely but unmistakably: "Then you are not qualified to judge us ; for you know nothing about the natural hostility of wives, and we know all about it. " A man's wives are the first to be charged with his death, even without evidence, because they are supposed to have a latent desire for it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
On one occasion, when my heart had been rent by the dreadful cruelty inflicted upon a certain woman whom I knew very well, who had been charged with witchcraft because of the death of her husband, I addressed the whole population of the town, and after holding forth for 238 THE FETISH FOLK OF WEST AFRICA some time in wrathful denunciation of their unreasoning suspicion, I asked why a man's wives must always be the first to be charged with his death. An elderly chief, rising to his feet, gently ...interrupted me, and using my native name, Mote-ke-ye (Man-who-never- sleeps), he said : "Ah, Mote-ke-ye, I would like to ask one question : Are you a married man ? " I was well aware, when I answered No, that the shrewd old man had routed me. The guilty men looked at one another with a relieved and peculiarly significant smile which said politely but unmistakably: "Then you are not qualified to judge us ; for you know nothing about the natural hostility of wives, and we know all about it. " A man's wives are the first to be charged with his death, even without evidence, because they are supposed to have a latent desire for it.
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