Speak, oh juju come out of the sky," Amadijue fluttered, but proud of his ability to find speech at all when all the others were stricken dumb with fear.
Then the slave was told, "So you shall tell the head juju when you see him.
I be missionary boy, sah, and savvy them JuJu palaver be all dam fraud," he stated in the coast English.
THE REIGN OF THE LONG JUJU Again had come the fulness of the time, and again Mary Slessor, at an age when most women begin to think of taking their ease, went forward to a new and great work for Christ and civilisation.
Then some village accident made the chiefs believe that their juju was angry because the girls had forsaken their sacrifices and deserted the heathen plays, and they placed pressure on them to return.
She did not fear death, but the thought of passing away alone in the bush troubled her, for her skull might be seized and be worshipped as a powerful juju by the people.
But they had usually a supply from the Long Juju situated in a secret, well-guarded gorge.
The story goes that the people declared the juju would never permit it to be cut down.
A few years before this a party of eight hundred natives had proceeded from the territories about the Niger to consult the Long Juju on various matters.
When the friends of the man who had entered saw the water running red, they believed that the Juju had devoured him.
The dreaded Long Juju was discovered in a gloomy defile about a mile from Arochuku.
The Aros, a powerful tribe who controlled the juju worship, were the people responsible for this evil.
To make the seats and pulpit he had the courage to use a magnificent tree which was regarded as the principal juju of the town.
It was the path to the Long Juju of bloody memory.
At the end of those 70 days you come to Juju where we were before.
Juju is CHO-CHAU, just at the distance specified from Peking, viz.
NOTE 7] From Juju you set out again and travel four days towards the south, finding many towns and villages.
At Arochuku they went down the gorge to the juju house, at the door of which they found a white goat starving to death.
They took the food and money which the visitors brought, and then said the juju wanted a living offering.
The juju will be angry; he will not let us, he will kill us.
On a little island was a hut, guarded by priests, in which the juju was supposed to live.
Illustration: THE WAY INTO THE JUJU GLEN.
Now the juju tree is where the god of a village is supposed to live, and his men were horror-struck.
When the time came to make the pulpit and seats, he said: "We want wood, cut down the juju tree.
Albert was a going to give him 10 cents for it and me and Beany was a going to divide up on goozeberries and juju paist, but Beany dident dass to ask J.
I mean to make a terrible example of you, so that people shall say as you pass by, that it is a woman who has been outraged, but a Juju who has avenged herself!
I am going to concentrate my thoughts upon you, so as to magnetise you and bring you back in the shortest possible time to your faithful old Juju who loves and adores you.
Ah, no, you are too kind to be angry with your poorJuju who loves you with such absolute admiring, devoted love!
Good-night, be happy and gay and content; your poorJuju will be unhappy enough for both.
Pagan tells me the extinguisher-shaped juju filled with medicine and made of iron is against drowning--the red juju is "for keep foot in path.
They were found buried and covered with blood, some of them having been used amongst the apparatus of their Juju sacrifices.
The famous Juju temple, studded with human skulls, is going to ruin.
From the juju house the witch doctor emerged, bedaubed with colored earths and bright ashes.
Far off in the bush, where we could never reach them, we knew juju councils were going on.
I think we'd wade into one of thosejuju councils," I remarked vindictively.
Juju was obviously at the bottom of whatever was happening, and there is no telling what may enter the head of a juju doctor.
I'm going to stop this juju sooner or later," said Graham lazily.
One or two of the carriers had been swept away by the fervor of the juju council and had joined Evan's folk in their attack on us, but the others had now fled to put themselves under my protection.
I told my juju priests to take the people off into the woods and keep them busy with a juju council until I had finished my business with you.
She was frightened, and the juju ceremony you saw was for the purpose of heartening her for the time she would spend in proximity to my godlike person.
I had thought it possible that it was by means of some mummery in that temple that he kept his natives in hand, but juju is a dangerous thing for a white man to meddle with.
If we leave them alone, they'll hold a juju palaver until they've gathered nerve to rush us.
I wonder what those poor devils think they get by all that juju palaver," he said ruminatively.
