CHAPTER XVII

FETICH IN FOLK-LORE 330

I. Queen Ngwe-nkonde and her Manja 332

II. The Beautiful Daughter 337

III. The Husband that Came from an Animal 346

IV. The Fairy Wife 351

V. The Thieves and their Enchanted House 358

VI. Banga-of-the-five-faces 367

VII. The Two Brothers 372

VIII. Jeki and his Ozâzi 378

GLOSSARY 387

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Fetich Magician _Frontispiece_

Facing Page

Native King in the Niger Delta 16

English Trading-House--Gabun 24

Fetich Doctor 86

Elephants' Tusks and Palm-leaf Thatch. Two Hundred Miles up the Ogowe River 148

War Canoe.--Calabar, West Africa 174

Natives Trading in Plantains and Bamboo Building Materials.--Gabun 182

Travelling by Canoe.--Ogowe River 198

A Civilized Family.--Gabun 236

Njembe. Female Secret Society.--Mpongwe, Gabun 254

Ekope of the Ivanga Dance.--Gabun 296

A Street in Libreville, Gabun 300

Map of the West African Coast 1

FETICHISM IN WEST AFRICA