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MEDICAL PRACTICES AND SUPERSTITIONS OF KORDOFAN 
Circumcision 
of boys 
2. Nanai Polypi. “ Um Sogah.” If they come within siglit, are scarred and 
Ijunctiired with the long thorns taken from a Heglig tree. 
3. (Jircuiiicisiou of lions. Usually undertaken about the fifth or sixth year amid 
general festivity; visitors from outside villages attending, carrying with them presents 
in the shape of food, etc. 
Usually several are circumcised at a time, the operator being the village 
Hakim, who is paid according to the standing of the boys’ parents. 
Operation. The penis is washed in cold water, after which a blunt probe of wood, 
ivory or metal (El Murwad) is passed round the glans, freeing it from the iDrepuce. 
The prepuce is then pulled well forward and clamped by means of a “Lazim,” a wooden 
clamp or the string of a “ Fass,” or drawn through the ivory or gourd disc (shown under 
