tci20120901-01

  • Christian Döhler
  • Maraga Kwozi
  • Marua Bai
Publisher
The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Abstract

This is a nzürna story set in the village of Firra. Nzürna stories are a widespread genre in the Morehead Region. They bear some resemblance to European witch-stories, the spirit being called nzürna is always female, she is described as a dangerous and capable of killing people, she lives away from people usually in the forest. In this particular nzürna story she is actually getting along well with the people of Firra until she kills and devours a man. After finding out about this, the people from Firra kill her with magic. The narrator comes from the village of Firra. But as most people from this village, he has moved to Morehead about 10 years ago. Firra is now used as a garden place. It about 15km to the South of Morehead. The speaker...

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