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Witchcraft

Girls are taught witchcraft when they are young and are married to a

_bonga_ husband. Afterwards when they marry a man they still go away

and visit the _bonga_ and when they do so they send in their place a

_bonga_ woman exactly like them in appearance and voice; so that the

husband cannot tell that it is not his real wife. There is however a

way of discovering the substitution; for if the man takes a brand from

the fire and burns the woman with it, then if it is really a _bonga_

and not his wife she will fly away in a flame of fire.