 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1857 - 596 pages
...for fighting, and they go together to Kobshi. Having arrived at the holy rock, they set their birds fighting, and he whose cock prevails in the combat,...whose anger he has thus provoked; and on returning to the village he finds his hut in flames.' The worship of this tribe is performed in ' holy groves,'... | |
 | Jerome Dowd - African Americans - 1907 - 548 pages
...were finally certainly untít the world, and whose cock prevails in the combat is also the winner of the point of litigation. But more than that, the master...cock is punished by the divinity whose anger he has provoked, and on returning to his village he finds his hut in flames." l The methods of executing criminals... | |
 | Jerome Dowd - African Americans - 1907 - 536 pages
...fighting, and they go together to Kobshi. Having arrived at the holy rock, they set their birds a-fighting, and he whose cock prevails in the combat is also the winner of the point of litigation. But more than that, the master of the defeated cock is punished by the... | |
 | Arthur John Newman Tremearne - Folk-lore, Hausa - 1913 - 608 pages
...for fighting; and they go together to Kobshi. Having arrived at the holy rock, they set their birds fighting, and he whose cock prevails in the combat...by the divinity, whose anger he has thus provoked; on returning to his village, he finds his hut in flames." Benton, ¿Votes on Some Languages of the... | |
 | P. A. Benton - Foreign Language Study - 1968 - 356 pages
...fighting; and they go together to K6bshi. Having arrived at the holy rock, they set their birds afighting, and he whose cock prevails in the combat is also the...returning to his village he finds his hut in flames. closely resemble the South African tribes, although the Berbers also seem originally to have had this... | |
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fighting, and he whose cock prevails in the combat is also the winner in the point of litigation. But more than that, the master of the defeated cock is punished by the divinity whose anger he has thus provoked, and on returning to his village he finds... 