"Hassis' Report concerning the Capture of the Fetish Yaw by the Abetifi Christians"

The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1895, pp 82-83. Additional points in the manuscript: Bowi, the old priest of Atie Yaw was still alive in Accra. The new priest was from Nteso, a village near Tafo. Although Asante, the Nkwatiahene sent him a present, he would not have the revived cult resident in his town. The Abetifi chief, Kwame Ado, himself gave the order for people to stay indoors at night during the visit of Atie Yaw. The 'fetish', now known by his right name Kofi Siri, had become a catechumen. A second fetish priest, this time from Abetifi (Ape, his fetish being called Fofie) had recently been deposed by ‘the people of his quarter' and persistently demanded to be accepted as a catechumen, and indeed in time had been so accepted.

20.05.1895

20.05.1895

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