62 x 40 mm. The Chief then went round the members of the wife's family spitting and touching their hands with the bundles of grass to swear them to some oath, proving there was no evil on their part. In the end, after dusk, the child was buried on this spot outside the parent's house, a stick placed over the grave and much grass, guinea corn stalks and kolas draped on the stick. Sometimes if the death of a Kaka child is not traced to a definite cause the body is placed in a grave under a bush path in the belief that the evil doer who caused the child's death, on passing over the grave will receive a sickness from which he too will die. The parents, father and relations next day visited the Ngambe (Spider Juju) man to find out why the child had died. At no time did they consult me even though they knew I was a doctor.