The man with more than a hundred wives yor_api_ft_04_20100608 Documenting oral genres in the Bolga dialect of Gurene (Northern Ghana)

A man married about a hundred wives. They all gave birth but the children were dying. He brought a soothsayer to find out about the cause. It was revealed to him that one of his wives has a ghost who eats the children's food and this causes the deaths. So the man sent the woman back to her parents because she was a witch. This is the law in the culture. Language_Name: Bolga dialect of Gurene Language_Region: Africa Language_Country: Ghana Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2010-02-01 End_Date: 2011-05-01