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Chapter seven: village rituals |
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Nsing-ngi feast, ritual to protect households |
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footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
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The third feast, Nsing-ngi, follows at the end of November. The ceremonies are here concerned rather with the individual households which make up the village rather than with the community as a corporate body. There is an important ceremony, performed separately in each house, for the safety (143) and health of the very young children; the usual feasts in the hangseoki; and the ceremony known as Hegwong-ngi [4 [Record T86878] |
