There are stories about
them which I could - I mean I could not - tell you.
There is one
belonging also to the Tschwi. She lives at Moree, a village five
miles from Cape Coast. She is, as is usual with deities, human in
shape and colossal in size, and as is not usual with deities, she is
covered with hair from head to foot, - short white hair like a goat.
Her abode is on the path to surf-cursed Anamabu near the sea-beach,
and her name is Aynfwa; a worshipper of hers has only got to mention
the name of a person he wishes dead when passing her abode and
Aynfwa does the rest. She is the goddess of all albinoes, who are
said to be more frequent in occurrence round Moree than elsewhere.
Ellis says that in 1886, when he was there, they were 1 per cent. of
the entire population. These albinoes are, ipso facto, her priests
and priestesses, and in old days an albino had only to name anywhere
a person Aynfwa wished for, and that person was forthwith killed.
I think I may safely say that every dangerous place in West Africa
is regarded as the residence of a god - rocks and whirlpools in the
rivers - swamps "no man fit to pass" - and naturally, the surf. Along
the Gold Coast, at every place where you have to land through the
surf, it fairly swarms with gods. A little experience with the said
surf inclines you to think, as the dabblers in spiritualism say
"that there is something in it." I will back this West Coast surf -
"the Calemma," as we call it down South, against any other
malevolent abomination, barring only the English climate.
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