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with that which follows the actual dcjiosit of a corpse in it.s grave under 

 the house. In jiarts of l^usoga there is tlie following custom, said to be 

 derived from the north : The head of a person after death is washed, and 

 the lips are daubed with oil. 



In re(i(jion the Basoga are still mainly pagan. Especially is this 

 the case with the large island of l^uvuma. situated near the birth of the 

 Nile between Uganda and Busoga. The natives of Ijuvuma are fetish- 

 ridden and extremely superstitious. The tall, peaked fetish huts and 

 temjjles \vhich are placed outside their settlements have already been 

 described in Chapter 11.. and are illustrated here. The following are the 

 names of the •• lia-lubare." or devils, worshipped in Biivitina: — 



Trukoma. 



Isodzi. 



Buvuma. 



Kasota. 



Wesege (dwells in a big tree). 



Nambaga (influences the " medicine '" kept in little horns). 



Kitiko. 



Meru. 



Buyegu. 



Xabirie (presides over the birth of twins). 



The princi2)al spirits worshipped among the Basof/a are: — 



Xasamba. Xalango. 



Wahunbe. Kitako. 



Waitambugwe. Kalesa. 



Kintu. Duungu. 



Maganda. Xabisana. 



Maero. Kigulii. 



Bugingo. Kaliro. 



Takwe. ■ Xaigombwa. 



Kisalumkalja. Lumbui. 



Kirongo. Ivaniiantunibe. 



l^nka-maembe. Kakua Kambuzi. 



There are, of course, priests in Busoga who attend to the special 

 worship of each of these spirits, "When a Musoga is anxious to obtain 

 anything from the supernatural agencies, he makes an offering at the 

 shrine of one or more of the above-mentioned spirits. According to his 

 means he may give a bull, a goat, or a fowl, the amount of the gift also 

 varying according to the importance of the spirit whose hel}) is claimed 

 and the extent of the request. Certain rivers in Busoga are connected 

 with the worship of spirits, and are thought to be the homes of special 

 *• lubare."' Formerly the Basoga piuiished severely the seduction of 

 a virgin. If a man was convictetl of such a crime, and the woman's- 



