10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SASSWOOD»
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1
Permutations of Order: Religion and Law as Contested ...
Poison ordeals are performed by drinking a toxic substance prepared with the
bark of the sasswood tree (Erythraphleum quineense).6 Notorious witches are
socially sanctioned or ousted from the community. The success of the penalty ...
Dr Thomas Kirsch, Dr Bertram Turner, 2013
2
Readings in African Law, Volume 1.
In explaining the nature of oaths on swem, Tiv draw the investigator's attention to
what we would call, in English, the ordeal by sasswood. They say, in effect, that
the principle of swem and the principle of sasswood are the same, but that ...
3
Witchcraft, Magic and Divination: Accounts from the Wimbum ...
Throughout the Wimbum area the sasswood ordeal (nnornggur) is used to prove
innocence of witchcraft. It was quite common in earlier days but seems to be
dying out gradually. If an unexpected death or calamity occurs, the relatives of the
...
4
Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in ...
The important point to take from all this was that an impersonal agent (the
sasswood poison) was used to determine whether an accused individual was
indeed a witch, and that the means of determination was also the means of
carrying out ...
Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, 1993
5
A Lone Woman in Africa: Six Years on the Kroo Coast
We sat there a few minutes and watched them get ready to beat the sasswood.
One of the kings arose and went to beg the women not to give the sasswood ; but
they refused to hear and kept up a noise so that his voice could not be heard.
Delah was unusually talkative, which started when Jenkins asked a question: He
wondered what sasswood was—Delah had sworn by sasswood that she was
telling the truth when she coaxed those in the shadow village out of hiding.
7
Masks as agents of social control in northeast Liberia
The best exam le of this is the sasswood ordeal," in whic the poison cup, drunk by
the accused, was supposed to make its own decision automatically. If the
individual were guilty the sasswood executed him on the spot with the same
infallible ...
8
CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: ...
in English: sasswood Erythrophleum ivorense A. Chev. (Erythrophleum
micranthum Holland; Erythrophleum micranthum Harms ex Craib) Tropical Africa,
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea. Perennial non-climbing tree, sapwood creamy
yellow, ...
Umberto Quattrocchi, 2012
9
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess
However, we have been unable to reconstruct the rest of the line. 3 More often "
sasswood" or "sassywood" in modern times, it is "a concoction made from the
bark of the Erythrophlaeum guineensis" (Warren d'Azevedo, Some Liberian
English ...
Joseph Jeffrey Walters, Gareth Griffiths, John Victor Singler, 2004
10
Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in ...
Close examination of material in Kalous (1974) suggests that the tango m6 filled
a gap created some years earlier by the decision of the Freetown colonial
authorities to ban the sasswood ordeal as a means of detecting witches. Drinking
...
