It is usually played to facilitate communication with ancestral spirits.
With white skin they were thought to be ancestral spirits, coming back to their descendants.
She is remembered in revolutionary theatre and song, but also today as an ancestral spirit.
Originally it was an annual event for giving gifts to the ancestral spirits.
The chief called on his ancestral spirits and dropped magic powder along the route he wanted to take.
One says that it came after a great battle between ancestral spirits.
"What is an ancestral spirit, and how can it have bitten your wife?"
Lebou families include not only living people but also associated ancestral spirits.
The healer supplements the advice from an ancestral spirit with their own knowledge, training and experience.
It marks the time when the ancestral spirits visit the Earth.
