LAUGHED THEM SECRETS OF THE PRIMITIVE ONES OF THE OUBANGUI

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This study gives us some secrets of the African bush on secret societies and initiation rites of primitive Oubangui. Few white men who were able to enter authentic initiation camps. There had to have been initiated into the mysteries, they were adventurers, their bones bleach in the sun Africa. One is tempted to believe that at present, it would be easier to know the secrets of the race. There is nothing of the Black became suspicious and if one sometimes encounters loquacious individuals, are generally advanced that want to explain and interpret the rites they are ignorant and they are not subject themselves. For these ceremonies, the author has encountered many obstacles and mutism more obstinate. Then, gradually, a friendly power stood up to win the esteem and confidence of a fetish of great renown among the natives, and, as if by magic, obstacles vanished … Exceeding under the simple photographic documentation, M. Vergiat addresses here the study of magic rites of primitive peoples. Limited to a part of the Oubangui basin, the study is singularly complete and accurate. It really takes us into the heart of the mysteries of the black soul, and he should be grateful to the author for having been able to bring us on magic or ritual events of a few advanced tribes indisputable documents. Thanks to him, it is a ray of light that is now projected into the impenetrable box what the secret life of the people of the Ubangi.