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are made. On the actual day, a caller wades neck-high in the water and chants. Within 30 minutes, a white shark would appear, leading a school of about fifty other sharks. It would encircle the caller who then leads them out to shallow waters to be slaughtered with nothing else but coconut branches.
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reverting to paganism through the worship of the Shark God. In 1992, there was another attempt to revive the ritual by her nephew, Isireli
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was used as a place of confinement for tuberculosis patients who remained there till their demise, in a desperate bid to minimise the rapid, widespread infection to the rest of the community.
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