
Image Number:
APN260526
APN260526
Title: Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 8 Description: Ghana, 1961. Juju: What is the Truth – This young juju man was asked by his mother to come down from the roof. He replied by plunging the knife deep into his chest and got up, smiling afterwards. The picture shows the knife sliding into his chest..." You want to see juju at work? Why, Amotive is the place!" "No, Agbomey is better! Go there, man!" "The place is Bioseh!" Yes, suggestions came by the million, when we said we wanted to see the juju. No-one told us: "I have personally been to so-and so place and seen such and such wonders. I guarantee that if you go there, you will see and photograph the same wonders." Country: Ghana Date Created: 02-08-1961 Creator: Drum Social Histories Credit Notice: Drum Magazine photographer / Drum Social Histories / Bailey's African History Archive / african.pictures Keywords:- Drum Magazine social history photographs
- Ghana edition 8
- Africa
- periodicals
- customs
- ceremonies
- ancient rites
- superstition
- folklore
- spirits
- jujuman
- jujumen
- juju
- trance
- trances
- defying conventional understanding
- charms
- cords
- elders
- portraits
- drums
- beating drums
- frenzies
- traditional healers
- wild dancers
- dancing
- sorabi
- locks
- premonitions
- curses
- lockjaw
- dumb
- mute
- beliefs and practices
- rituals
- superstitions
- magic
- wizardry
- concoctions
- traditional concoctions
- consumption of concoctions
- spiritual practitioners
- padlocks
- sunsets
- sticks
- knives
- cactus spines
- witchcraft
- sheep
- cemeteries
- graves
- Ghana
- 1961