Over at Diane's Journals:
The most important piece of furniture in an African household is the seat, most often a stool or bench, as it is called in French: le banc.
The Duala of the area now known as Cameroon, for example, believed that the owner’s mystical strength lay in his seat; it was therefore dangerous for another person to sit on it. This person could be hit by lightning if he did not possess a similar mystical force. To sit on another person’s seat was to openly defy him, and nobody was surprised to find the transgressor dead the next day...[continue reading]
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