Things Fall Apart

Describe the burial of Ekwefi's third child, and the reason for it.

chapter 8-10

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The medicine man believed that her babies were all the same evil spirit coming back over and over again. He ordered that there shouldn't be a funeral, and then mutilated the baby, before burying it in the Evil forest. He did all this to try and make the spirit think twice before coming again.

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Things Fall Apart