Congo life and folklore

by John H. Weeks

• Names given to Kroo boys, [4];
  • white men, [4];
  • missionaries, [90]
• Ndoki, an evil bewitching spirit, [22], [23], [278], [281], [282], [283]
• Nkwiya, spirit that can leave a person and travel without the body, [232], [281]

O

• Omens, kicking the foot, [19], [85];
  • snake on the road, [74];
  • cutting ordeal bark, [55]
• Out-station work, [296];
  • Sunday at an, [297];
  • Communion at an, [298]

P

• Pawn, redeeming a, [178]
• Peace, ceremony of making, [220]
• Pictures, native learns to look at, [255]
• Plaited-Beard warns my companions against white men, [16];
  • angers the people against the coming white man, [60];
  • abuses a visitor, [62];
  • accompanies Satu, [74];
  • kicks his foot and returns to his town, [85];
  • is sent on an embassy, [131];
  • refuses to meet the white man, [172];
  • is not successful in hunting, [208];
  • accuses Bakula, [208];
  • reinvigorates his charm, [210];
  • is made Nenkondo, [224];
  • his crockery is broken, [239];
  • charges Bakula with stealing, [241];
  • submits to the ordeal, [247];
  • guards Bakula during the night, [290]
• Prohibition of luck-giver, [71]
• Proverbs, [33], [39]
• Pudding, way to eat, [38]

R

• Redeeming a pawn, [178];
  • a slave, [191]
• Riddles, various, [9], [124], [125]
• Ridge-pole, taking of chief’s, [219]
• Road, dangers of the, [229], [231], [316]
• Rules of the road, [234]

S

• Sacrifices to charms, [26], [36], [70]
• St. Catherine fails to help the King, [167]
• Satu knocks his toes, [19];
  • bad omen, [20];
  • visits “medicine man,” 20;
  • arrives just in time to see his dying brother, [22];
  • arranges burial of his brother, [23];
  • receives the mourners, [26],
    • and their gifts, [27];
  • stops a serious quarrel, [63];
  • orders a luck fetish, [69];
  • goes to visit a chief, [73];
  • his toilet and dress, [86];
  • visits the white man, [106];
  • a long talk, [107]-110;
  • afraid of witchcraft, [111];
  • a title falls to him, [131];
  • sends embassy to King, [131];
  • receives his title, [173];
  • redeems his brother, [178];
  • releases his niece from a hateful marriage, [179];
  • his quarrel with Dimbula, [203];
  • demands an apology, [205];
  • goes to war, [212];
  • accused of bewitching a slave, [219];
  • helps Bakula, [242]
• Selfishness, heathen, [317]
• Sickness, attempt to clear country of, [283], [284]
• Smoking a chief, [273]
• Superstitions about white men:
  • buying bodies, [16];
  • get cloth from the sea, [17];
  • wickedness of white teachers, [17], [18];
  • a luck-fowl dies, [271]

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