Congo life and folklore

by John H. Weeks

• Teachers, need for native, [300];
  • teaching, [303]
• Title falls to Satu, [131];
  • ceremony of giving the, [174]
• Titles of King’s attendants, [145]
• Toilet before meals, [28];
  • before entering a town, [86]
• Tolls for bridges, [234]
• Tonzeka receives Satu, [87];
  • gives him good entertainment, [90];
  • how to settle a palaver, [91];
  • defends the white teacher, [93]-97;
  • is disturbed by the teaching, [95];
  • takes Satu to the white teacher, [106]
• Trade goods taken for rubber, ivory, etc., [13]
• Trading, [230];
  • fetish for helping, [231];
  • arrival of traders, [234]
• Treatment of native chief, [273]
• Tumbu sold for food, [43];
  • tells a story, [43];
  • wounded, [217];
  • witnesses for Bakula, [244];
  • tries to comfort Bakula, [249];
  • buries Bakula, [292];
  • takes me[me] from his friend’s body, [293]

V

• Visitors arrive, [59];
  • abused by Plaited-Beard, [62]

W

• War fetish is made, [214]
• Wardrobes, variegated, [87]
• Welcomed to the station, [303], [311]
• White men, native talk about, [13]
• White man’s fetish, [13];
  • puts weight under scale, [14];
  • buys banana for rubber, [14];
  • cheats in paying out beads, [14];
  • is rubbed with cow-itch, [15];
  • wants to steal ivory trumpets but is shaved, [32];
  • accused of being dirty, [62];
  • why they live under the sea, [108];
  • will steal our country, [172]
• White woman take services, [314]
• Witch-doctors, names of--
  • Kimbaji-mbaji = to-morrow, [21]
  • Ngang’a Ngombo = witch-finder, [50], [288]
  • Ngol’a nkasa = giver of the ordeal, [55];
  • ngang’a zumbi = luck-giver, [69];
  • ngang’a nkongo = giver of hunting skill, [194], [210]
  • Kimpovela, one who speaks on behalf of others, [198]
    • prayer of, [199], [207]
  • Nganga of war, [214]
  • Nganga of peace, [221]
  • Ngang’a mpungu = giver of trading and general good luck, [231]
  • Nganga who gives oil ordeal, [246]
  • Nganga to destroy evil spirit, [363]
  • Nganga a wuka = healer, [274]
  • Nganga a moko, [277]
  • Nganga with traps, [280]
  • Nganga a bitodi who spoke to spirits, [281]
  • Nganga various, [284]
• Women regarded as inferior, [30], [38];
  • condition bettered by Christianity, [310];
  • white woman takes services, [314]

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Footnotes

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[1]. It may interest those who would read further on the folklore of the Lower Congo people that in Folk-Lore (the Journal of the Folk-Lore Society) for 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911 more detailed articles will be found, which were furnished by the writer.