Hausa superstitions and customs
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In offering this volume on the Hausas, who are interesting, not only on account of their beliefs and habits, but also because of the services of their soldiers to the Empire, I wish to express my best thanks to Messrs. Hartland and Crooke (ex-President and President respectively of the Folk-lore Society) for supplying many parallels to the tales — marked (H) or (C) ad hoc; to Professors Frazer and Westermarck for reading
Part I ; to Lieut. G. R. K. Evatt for several photographs, and for comparing my material with his own notes; to Mrs. Mary Gaunt, Colonel Elliot, Major Searight, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Anthropological Institute for five photographs; and, lastly, to my wife for correcting the proofs, and to her friend. Miss E. M. Clarke, for most of the figures — ^some of which were drawn at the British Museum through the courtesy of the authorities there.
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The People — Value of Folk-Lore — The Narrators — Difficulties of Collecting — Authorities — Commencement and Ending of Stories. The principal habitat of the Hausawa — or, as we call them, the Hausas — comprises the Hausa States, forming the greater part of what is now Northern Nigeria, -which is British territory, a good deal of the French Possessions to the west, and also the hinterland of the Gold Coast. But the people, being great travellers and traders, are met with all over the Sudan, and many colonies have been established between Tripoli and Tunis in the north and the Bight of Benin in the south. Whether they came originally from the east or north-east, or whether they are indigenous, is
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London, J. Bale, sons & Danielsson, ltd.
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