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my husband told me of. a Bakuba girl who ate her own motherG Once a snake bit a man and he at once called the witch doctor. The snake was a poisonous one and the man bitten was in great pain. The witch doctor whooped and. went through several chants but the man got worse instead of better. ‘The witch doctor then told the man that his wife made the snake bite him by witchery and that she should die for the act. The natives gathered at once in response to the witch doctor‘s call and the woman was executed at once. The man bitten. by the snake finally died. but the witch doctor had shifted the responsibility of his failure to help the man to his wife who had been beheaded. The witch doctor had justified him~ self and the incident was closed.
“The tribe ruled by a King has two or more absolute

rules. The Kings word is law and he has the power to condenin any subject to death at any time without trial. If he becomes angry or offended with any of his wives a nod and a word to his body~uard and the woman is led away to execution. Any person pf the tribe ‘is subject to the King‘s will with the exception of the witch doctor. Executions of a different nature than the ones described above are conunon occurance~ For general crimes the culprit after being condemned to death is placed in a chair shaped very much like the electric chairs used in .American prisons in taking the lives of the condemned. He is then tied firmly to the chair with thongs. A pole