
Image Number:
APN260538
APN260538
Title: Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 7 Description: Ghana, 1961. Juju: What is the Truth – In a frightening blur of sharp steel the knife plunges towards the juju man's stomach. But it left no scar. An anxious woman looks on. I have told you the man was fat and strong looking. His antics heightened his frightening appearance and, man, we were afraid! I could see no logical reason for his anger. If he didn't want us to see his juju, okay – he had but to tell us and we could quit in double quick time. I suggested this to our guide, but he whispered to me to be quiet. 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 7
- 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