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Nigeria

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Nigeria documented in this atlas: Àbíkú. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade A), with the sources it comes from.

Àbíkú A
A child who belongs to a company of spirits with which it has made a pact of early return: it dies small and re-enters the same womb, in order to die again. The family answers with names that are public contracts — Málọmọ «do…

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