{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/fjort/fjo47.htm","path":"afr/fjort/fjo47.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/fjort/fjo47.htm","text":"Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort, by Richard Edward Dennett, [1898]\n1. Sanguila mboma kumina muntu.\n 2. Mbelli sandaugu nkambu ku vonda muntu.\n 3. Aula mani Zinga bazolila muliambu.\n 4. Bakana [2] ku vonda, ba vonda kua u-\n 5. Macosso rnuana Danka banzola maka lilanga.\n1. [Si quis, in oppidum cum venerit, dicat] anguem parvulum hominem devorasse, [nemo ei credat. Sic Fjort cum primum de p\u00e6derastia audivisset) non verum esse credidit.]\n 2. [Ut inter saltantes opus est] cuivis cultro, quo nescio quem [illudentem] occidat: [sic Fjort, cum primum audivisset aliquem hoc facinus, in se admisisse, cultrum desideravit, quo eum occidere].\n 3. Filius Zing\u00e6, [cujus facies velut] gum-copal [pulchra erat], p\u00e6derasti\u00e6 deditus erat.\n[1. Bakulu-Nkulu, as I have already described to you, is that part of the dead which the Fjort says can be placed in the head of a living person; Ba, Bantu people; Kulu, perhaps soul, spirit. The Fjort say that the Bakulu are invisible and that they cannot see one another; but they contradict themselves, for on referring to my notes I find that when a man wishes to become rich, he obtains a fetish, or nkissi, called Buti, and when a man who has obtained this fetish dies, his nkulu ties up other Bakulu, and places them in the corner of some shimbec, and keeps them there.\n2. Zinga means the long-lived; Bakana, the calculator, the man of thought.\n4. Bakana [cum] occidere [voluit, et filius Zing\u00e6 respondit:] Occide [me, si vis, at ego in flagitio pergam].\n 5. Macosso, puer Dank\u00e6 [albi hominis] dominum. amabat, [et quun hic in Europam abiisset] non desiit lugere].","title":"Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort: The Song Of The Snake.","type":"page"}