Provenance Koudjawoé village near Bohicon, Benin, see Google Map
According to our local source who went to collect this information, these rituals are still alive and a family may have several altars and skulls of ancestors. Our contact could not know precisely why the objects were sold, lack of power or lack of money, probably a bit of both, the owner of the objects had closed this question.
NB: This information was obtained with difficulty, distilled reluctantly by their owner, and transcribed as best as possible in good french ... We believe they are partial and "politically correct" to the uninitiated.
The skull with links and blindfolded concerns the fidelity in the married couple. The first days of marriage, to protect themselves of infidelity, the husband will see the fetish priest, who may recommend to go naked in front of an altar on which the skull was laid, and then kneel and pray. If one were to betray the loyalty to his spouse, he would be punished by the ancestors and become seriously ill or would be madness. But he admitted his infidelity, he could return to the skull with an elder from the family to ask what ancestors purification ceremony must be done. Usually these events resulted in a divorce and unfaithful man could then remarry ...
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