Sacrifices

 Among the Ewes and some of the northern tribes in Ghana, sacrifices are sometimes offered at the request of the spirits, gods, and ancestors. 

Sometimes animals are slaughtered or buried alive (Olupona 2004:104). When it comes to the issue of death among the Ewes and some tribes in the northern region of Ghana, dogs or cats are sometimes buried alive at midnight to save the soul of the one at the point of death. 

Dogs and cats are used to replace the life of people, because they believe that the spirit of such animals is strong for that purpose. 

There is also the view that, because they are domestic animals and are very close to people, sometimes when they see that someone very close to them is about to die, they offer their lives for that person to live. In such cases the animal would die mysteriously. 

This is therefore interpreted, ‘[I]t could be that someone was about to die and the animal took his or her place’. This is a common believe among the Ewes in Ghana.

Sometimes rituals are performed in order to consecrate some herbs. Rituals constitute the way of consecrating African traditional medicine; medicine without consecration for Africans is meaningless. 

Divine and ancestral sanctions are considered necessary before and during the preparation and application of medicine (Idowu 1973:201).

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