The consummation of marriage according to Weeks
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Among the Primitive BakongoTranslation pending (1914), p. 146
he rubs a bullet on the palm of the witness's hand, and says: "I have heard all the words spoken, and if I destroy the marriage, may I die by this bullet." The woman also takes the same oath. When this ceremony is completed the elders enter the house of the newly-married couple to arrange the hearthstones, and to teach the bride concerning her duties as a wife
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Notes on some customs of the Lower Congo people (Folk-Lore, vol. XIX, 1908)Translation pending (1908), p. 413
rubbing a bullet on the palm of the witness's hand, says: "I have heard all the words spoken, and if I destroy the marriage may I die with this bullet." The woman also takes the same oath. This ceremony over, the witnesses go into the house of the newly married couple to arrange the hearth stones and to instruct the bride in her duties as a wife
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Among the Primitive BakongoTranslation pending (1914), p. 146
and also to see if the bridegroom is able to consummate the marriage; and should he be unable, the marriage is broken off and the money returned.
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Among the Primitive BakongoTranslation pending (1914), p. 146
Sometimes, on account of the shame, the marriage is not dissolved, but the husband finds a suitable young man and permits him to have intercourse with his wife, and should there be a child it is treated by the husband as his own.
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Among the Primitive BakongoTranslation pending (1914), p. 146
where mother-right prevails the whole purpose of the marriage arrangements is to increase the woman's family, not the man's, and anything that helps to the attainment of this object is sanctioned, and, on the other hand, everything that stands in the way is used as a reason for breaking off the marriage.
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Notes on some customs of the Lower Congo people (Folk-Lore, vol. XIX, 1908)Translation pending (1908), p. 413
If through impotency he cannot, the marriage is broken off.
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the husband finds a suitable young man and permits him to have intercourse with his wife so that she may have a child by him.
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Notes on some customs of the Lower Congo people (Folk-Lore, vol. XIX, 1908)Translation pending (1908), p. 414
the children of the wife do not belong to the husband but to the wife's family. He is breeding children to increase another family than his own.
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- Weeks, John H.Translation pending — Notes on some customs of the Lower Congo people (Folk-Lore, vol. XIX, 1908)Translation pending (1908), p. 413
When the wife dies, the husband takes a calabash of palm wine and goes to his wife's family, i.e. to her maternal uncle's family, and demands another wife in place of the dead one.
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The reason for these demands is that the children of the wife do not belong to the husband but to the wife's family.
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