Bubi Village History-Fourth Chapter fourth chapter
As I said, being given a girl for marriage bond is deposited by their parents in a small hut built next to her future husband, whom they name or buna bull, live here imprisoned for longer or shorter depending on the different districts of the island while in the south as their detention is forced one or two weeks in the north lasts one to two years. In this enclosure your occupation is weaving fibers extracted from the palm baskets and adornments for the arms and legs called besori bipaha and crimp or Sesori and all sorts of trinkets and bits of seafood called ichiba or loko and daily adornment of the person to show her husband most beautiful, graceful and seductive. This makes frequent visits and from here, especially in the north, which, at public ceremonies and legal wedding, the bride is pregnant.
while the wife stays in retirement the husband is engaged in have and to begin preparations for the wedding, which in ancient times was reduced to purchase large quantity of yams and taro, a lot of game meat and other domesticated animals, like sheep and goats and making large supply of palm wine was the only fermented drink that tasted those happy times. In modern times the Bubi weddings are not as modest and innocent and are relatively expensive, for the simple reason that now I have to buy everything, to achieve gender wife, and for the exterior of the wedding ceremony.
changed circumstances, now relegated to oblivion palm wine, exquisite bau man singularly or in the north of the island, and work with great determination for the acquisition of large barrels of wine and many boxes of brandy and hence Bubi the race is so degenerate, degraded and almost extinct. Acts
preparations, the great men of both families and in agreement designating the day that the wedding be held and what people have to be invited to the celebration of a More particularly, what the baetchi or close friends of both families have to be chosen to witness the act. Although determined by the family council that people, particularly strangers invited you to be uniquely, but all the villagers are entitled to attend, without being invited to a party or outdoor feasts, weddings because of the boobs not so much were a source of joy and family celebrations, which were considered as common and universal happiness and joy throughout the town in general.
arrived on the appointed day, the groom accompanied by his baechi or close friends who are always a man and a woman to be her godparents of marriage, going to get his wife or girlfriend of the bull, buna or house of detention and they all occur in the general assembly. The primary and authoritative assembly makes the wife in particular serious reflection on the serious obligations contracted with solemn ceremony and rigor that will impose penalties if a time comes to break their commitments, notably if the faith and violated loyalty to her husband. Concluded that reasoning asks the bride and groom if they will be happy and live together in accordance with forever. The response from the wife is necessarily so, but feel himself beyond his dislike and even hate her husband. Are there yams prepared beforehand or malangas cooked and seasoned with grass or bokochi nau, five heads of various species of animals and some gourds of palm wine. The Speaker of the Assembly agrees to take the new betrothed and their sponsors or witnesses a bite of yams or malanga, herbs or bokochi nau, each of the five heads of five different species of animals and then taking a zucchini sitoho calling, full of mau bau or a drink of palm wine contained therein. He then puts his right hand on the head of the spouses by saying a few words of blessing on the newlyweds and wish them every kind of happiness and above all, a very numerous offspring. Finished
these more intimate ceremonies dissolve the assembly and the bride with her godmother leaves to put on his best ornaments and finery. These were reduced to paint the whole body with the ointment nthola or foward giving a red color, describing it in different shapes with a white ground boa or moa called to fill the entire neck of large strings of all kinds of beads, naked around her waist with a wide woven belt with loko and other beads of various colors, from which hung a small apron of monkey skin to hide their shame, leaving bare the buttocks. The legs and arms or Mesori besori and tissues as a belt around you waist, neck hanging over the breast a plenty of long strings of beads and braids, leaving her breasts exposed. The headdress and ornaments of the head is to take up medium hair cut, deeply imbued with foward and holding it with a ribbon of small beads that are coated with a mono-skin cap or a cap of shellfish tissue. Currently the string of beads usually have holes silver coins, the abundance of which is the sign of the wealth of the bride and groom. Formerly lacked silver coins, had strips of skin in a brightly colored snake.
While the bride is decorating the village is placed outside of family groups and each are dealt baskets of yams and taro, pots containing large slices of meat stuck in palm oil and huge pumpkins or the heady mau bau. In the middle of the square place a place of preference which put a pumpkin with palm wine or other liquor and this site is the one who has to take the bride. Willing
all the people eager to appear the bride, in order to start enjoying the food, we introduce some maidens singing and dancing in the house for the bride. This together with the same maiden and mother appears before the public all pretty and pleasing, and all the people cheering and applauding, calling it beautiful, happy and blessed, then gives a few laps around the square singing and dancing with her godmother and friendly childhood and sits on the site of choice for her. Sitting
and groom, their parents or that otherwise take their place, out in the middle of the circle and the new bride going to make it before all the assembled people the same exhortations, warnings are identical and equally threatening punishment that made him the chairman of the meeting of both families in the solemn act of matrimonial consent. Then they pass in front of it all, giving congratulations, congratulating her and wishing her much happiness in your new state all manner of prosperity and she nods with a smile and a nod. Completed
the above, they start to feast already prepared, accounting of yam, meat and wine that had previously eaten with the eyes. Immediately following the big dance, the first day of the party usually lasts almost without intervals from sunset until the following day's departure. To avoid the fatigue that causes the ball and keep his strength, warmth and enthusiasm when in Cando are distributing to each one of these large glasses of liquor. The wedding celebrations would last from eight to fifteen days in proportion to the power and wealth of the parties, plus the greater solemnity was no more than three, which ended people are not very close to the newlyweds, is returned to their homes and regular chores. When most of the attendees are removed to their homes or villages, then the bride with her entourage of maids godmother and friends, all in costumes and ornaments come to walk the neighborhoods of the town or the different villages in the district, stopping at places downtown and in front of the houses of families main village. They tend to dance and sing songs alluding to their families or inhabitants of the village. Finish the dance and songs, the family in front of whose house has been sung again congratulates the bride, give thousand congratulations and makes a small gift. The bride share of tokens of appreciation, cheering all their partners to the donor family and one of them carrying a pumpkin head full of liquor very ornate, the offers to the principal of the house que guste el delicioso licor.
El año 1919 hallábame en un poblado bubi perteneciente al norte de la isla en el cual se celebraba un matrimonio, asistí a las bodas y estuve observando hasta muy avanzada la noche todos los ritos y ceremonias fielmente y con religiosidad practicadas por estas gentes. Pasados tres días cabales y serían las nueve de la mañana cuando vi que venia hacia la casa que me hospedaba , la novia y todo su cortejo de amigas vestidas y engalanadas con sus mejores joyas y sin otro saludo comenzaron a bailar delante la puerta de la casa y entonar los siguientes cantares que pongo en bubi y en español.
B U B I E SPA Ñ OL
1 º Eh: solder Gilo to sitoho SAU Father is zucchini
S 's' or boatta oki ; ; ; Has a history
tooboele or bitim
Obo That you can count pannabuella
Boe In the English church
2 º E sibeloa to toe na `e pul ; ; Getting off the ship we
Sitimabuella The stranger heard
Le Ibach BIAU kottoe li ; ; And warn well
Le ohao or boriba Our applause and jubilation
When the dance and singing an expressive look led me, and I knew what they wanted, so I gave some silver coins. They gave three thundering cheers for the Father and was offered immediately liked the pumpkin for its content and I, by no means negligible hit my lips and took a sip of liquor. Very satisfied they were happy to dance and sing to another house. It is noted that the first house they visited was not that of botuku but the Father.
As above it is clear that all wedding parties Bubi has no object to warn the bride of their obligations and at the same time exalt and give him the good wishes for having preserved its virginity and present a model of fidelity to her husband and future generations. DISEASES
is the general belief among these people that uniquely severe disease and very durable, never are the effects of natural causes, but evil influences of witchcraft, spells, incantations or spells, but mainly and above all the spirits of their ancestors offended or wronged. From here you feel the horror and fear of curses necessarily believe that their feared effects occur, and hence also to show care and concern so conducive to have the spirits of the deceased and appease them with sacrifices, libations or treats funeral so soon that create angry.
relocation climate or atmospheric conditions, heat, cold, humidity, sunshine and rain are things created by God for the welfare and happiness of man and therefore can not directly cause a disease. Even the misfortunes and casualties coming from the palms serious falls, bites of snakes, scorpions and other critters they see meaning for a spell. These ideas will indicate laziness or carelessness of the Bubi to seek natural medicines for their illness. They have some true, we will say then, but so few and so primitive that they demonstrate very clearly the abandonment of this bubi sense.
A minor illnesses are not given any importance, but when severe, the patient transferred to Roji, Rohi, Nekola or as we say in the chapel of the strongest protective spirit and powerful known around the edges for that spirit to take the patient under their care free him curse and cure their disease. If symptoms persist aggravating suspended in the neck, arms, waist and legs of the patient in many charms, theft or room as they say, cover the walls of the hut and the door with the same charms and often build a new arch of reeds at the entrance of town, filling it with spiral shells, chicken feathers, locks of hair sheep and leaves iko call tree that has the power to frighten and scare away evil spirits who are bringing all the calamities to this valley of tears.
are going to consult the most renowned witch causes the disease, he takes his pumpkin full of shells and shellfish tozos and begins to make her spells, evokes the spirits and asks them to manifest the disease, the cause of the same and medicine to cure it.
The Bubi evokes the spirits and talk to them, whistling that none of the bystanders usually includes questions and evoke responses. And no one should be submitted to the witch with nothing but beforehand will take their gifts currently consisting of some heads of snuff or bottles of liquor, usually brandy. The wizard asks some questions to the consultants and then with great gravity and composure states that this or that disease, the cause of it is the spirit of his deceased brother, to whom they have not raised any house, as I heard in Basupú, and to heal we must build the house predicted for the soul of his brother. The patient's family built the house at the time, but the patient did not improve but worsened and at the end of a couple of weeks, his soul would join his brother and other ancestors. Other
says the cause is the soul of his father, grandfather or husband which you would like a goat slaughtered several chickens, and therefore if you want health is indispensable sacrifice.
About this I will tell you what happened with Bubi Batete unfaithful. In one of my forays into the villages boobies Heights Batete it came to approach the main town of the witch called Molubbela, I heard a strange hissing, but very pianos and followed. The child my partner said to me softly: you `bao Pale Barima (Father are worshiping the devil.) On hearing this the mule apéeme métima of rondón in the house and heard the whistle. In fact I found the witch sitting on a stool called eonda well done, on his back there was a sort of way altar altarpiece, which hung many deer goat skulls and other amulets The witch had a stick between his legs that moved with both hands while evoking their spirit whistled protector:; the consultant was also sitting on a log facing the same wizard; aside a tree fern trunk stuck on the ground holding a large earthenware dish, which usually fill the Bubi palm wine or sea water to the guardian spirits, but then did not, but six sheets of snuff were the alms that the consultant had been brought to the sorcerer. It should be noted that this snuff had given myself to the sick that morning by sent me some gourds of palm wine. I was listening to the whistling and looking at what the witch, because this is not fazed by my presence. Asked the boy if he understood what I was whistling the witch and I said no. Interrupting the sorcerer
asked Mme or sae "Molubbela? (What you do Molubbela) and he replied with a certain nonchalance "Mme n` sae? - N k `o` OHAs morimoñi, AHAs `ot` o `anch morim MOA" (What do I do? Well I love my mind, You Can not ever loves to yours?). Replíquele in the same tone "N` da pea width Barima ohia Aleni OHAs n `k` e `a bad Poto based Barima bay (I do not worship the spirits, but only God who raised the spirits). By this I took leave of the witch who died Molubbela unfaithful and had lived in Christmas 1915.
Another time I visited the very sick and I asked what had been the result of the query. You can now assume you answered, and you know our customs. Almost all of my children have gone to reside at the Mission and to appease them was necessary to offer some goats and make possible for my children to abandon the mission and how they make fun of my warnings and entreaties spirits were not appeased and continued with the disease and I think I will die of it. Replíquele: Your medical condition is serious and incurable, but you offer all your goats and chickens die of this disease. His response was a very sad look b and a smile of melancholy. Yet still did not believe my words and continued sacrificing animals to the spirits of his parents and the disease continued to run out of goats on the threshold of death. At this trance sent for him and touched with sincerity and grace of God said: You have repeatedly assured me that all the evil spirits can not be together against the will of God, now I understand that this is true for both disown the spirits of the devil and I pray God gives water (Baptism) I want to die a Christian. He went slowly instructing in the truths of our faith, I gave him water healthy so ardently desired and left after three days where they go and enjoy the blessed God. Much would the conversion of this man who was rich Batete the pleas of a daughter who was in heaven and in Article mortis earned in 1887, being the first person to Batete received holy baptism.
One of the most clear and obvious evidence of integrity, simplicity and purity of the customs of the ancient Bubis is the lack of knowledge and ignorance amongst these of venereal disease. These diseases common among people shirt, confess the old boobs were imported by the bakruma bapotó singularly, who having joined with women Bubis fled from her husband or father's house and refugees on the beach or on cocoa farms, told them so annoying and embarrassing disaster. Then some of these unhappy feeling the discomfort of the disease and abandoned by their evil mischief returned to their countrymen of the mountain, which unwary and ignorant joining with such women infected virus came the destroyer of humanity.
This explains why so MOBAT as the word has become synonymous with dirty, and neglected the body and clothing, because Pamu or robes for the first time coming on the Continent generally loaded chiggers and be very lazy in cleaning of person, just as the voice-nari Mokruma Bubi by means worldly woman or a bad life. However
Bubi customs today have degenerated so much in this regard uniquely among the inhabitants of the north of the island. And not observed in these primitive simplicity and purity, before the opposite, much ease and boldness in words and actions. This moral laxity in the customs and habits Bubis was the beginning of a remarkable way back in 1906 and 1907.
originally drugs Bubis, as we write are very scarce and so primitive that indicates very clearly the concept that had the principle and cause of physical illness and hence the little study or rather the great neglect find drugs or remedies for them. Medications applied to the recovery
health lotions are reduced to cold or hot water, anointing oil and foward ointment, plasters of some common herbs, potions, salt water or palm wine mixed with pepper and frequent use of the knife to puncture.
simple fever, which gives the names of moop or mine (South) and bio Boop (North) cured with diet and cold baths. For that begins with chills, whose name is boop boa kaha (N) and mine I rikoko (S) were used hot tubs. In headaches and general aches servíanse head cold bath jet directed to it, a poultice of mashed leaves of the shrub bentanopolo (N) boboma (S) and ground beans of a pepper that Pomme (N) and Sokol (S) and when the pains showed rebels in the top of the forehead. To relieve abdominal pain taking salt water mixed with pepper called kissed him (N) and Mesola (S). Indigestion in seawater also drank straight or mixed with the juice extracted from young leaves of the shrub bojojoho (N) mopoto (S). These same leaves after boiling foods are an excellent laxative.
To get rid of diarrhea and dysentery bojono (N) mbooso (S) used as first dry food, roasted green bananas, then kissed him or Mesola granite ground, prepared with sea water or palm wine, also drink a liquid made with tender leaves of the shrub Rihuan. Of respiratory diseases like bronchitis, pleurisy and pneumonia were fought frequently with rubbing with very hot water and putting the patient on a poultice of crushed leaves or biolole biruru and pepper pomme (N) Tököl (S) and kissed him (N) cure rheumatic pains with applications of hot baths, eating beri fragrant herbs, nchono, atcha, Biek and malumbe, and when the pain would not yield to these remedies, made deep cuts on the sore from which flowed copious blood.
for parasitic diseases korokoro scabies or mbatta the bonchika herpes, ringworm Child, and a kind of leprosy ebatta (N) eMatter (S) all usually have in childhood, he used rubbing with warm water until blood flowed vesicles after with a poultice of leaves bojojoho, pepper mopóto and kissed him, Mesola ground all covered with ointment ntola, Ndola. Also make small cuts around vesicles in herpes and prevent its spread. For ringworm shaved or shaved hair of the head with pieces of glass, then practiced covering minor cuts with a plaster. The swellings wash them with hot water and then trying to exit incisions made blood. The same run with the bites of poisonous snakes and other critters beforehand strongly binding on both sides of the wound. For burns is worth the rotting bark of a banana foot passing a few times over the fire, then cold is applied to the wound. In the south cover the burn with hair pulled out of the membrane that serves as the flying squirrel wings, looking to renew it daily until it be burned. Corns bototto foot ulcers (N) motondo (S) are burned to heat for it from the skin using dry olive palm tinder that burns without flame. Ulcers of the carefully washed with hot water, washed once with the tip of a knife will cut gangrenous yews to get to the meat lives, which anointed with oil and tying up EBAs foward, to avoid any shock or friction.
make tumors grow with almond oil ointment and Ndola and half-ripe when they open with a knife making a deep cut to start the Moak, almonds, as they say it is the same as taking root or principle of the tumor. Klas sometimes suffer from tumors that call, an Batete (N) Matete (S) occupying a leading member frequently as every leg, whole arm or whole back, which cause great discomfort to the patient, confined to bed for weeks . These tumors are opening the one on one with the tip of the knife bleeding. The only tumor that do not open, but wait draining itself is the hangnail bojada (N) Mook (S) that cured with an herb poultices in the north called mouse ears batt ba bitch and South sokapelaeonda and above this plaster bubi placed cooked taro. All cuts or incisions, as cured with oil and Ndola.
blowing in the tetanus patient Loïk to scare away evil spirits they believe have taken the patient, then give very strong dry friction with the tender leaves of the shrub biolole. For diseases have absolutely no drug seizures before they all leave the patient at the time of the attack, because, believe it possessed the devil and the cries and contortions giving that makes the patient but not the devil. This is why in the north give these diseases eloppa name.
As some boobies show much skill is to heal the dislocations and bone fractures. I've seen priests make very difficult and risky, such as femoral neck fracture in a woman 35 years and the treatment of a leg of a boy of 17 years broken by both sides and one of them made the bone chips. The touch healer searching for the different chips by putting it in its respective place, at 50 days both sick and took to the streets, but the woman always felt something of a limp.
