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Overview

Dangira, also named Dausa or Kaikai, is a sister of Yerima whose name is glossed as Itch. After parading she sits and scratches vigorously, especially the face and chest. Ismaila and the other scholar spirits drive her out if they arrive while she is in the ring. That interpersonal opposition gives the notice a more specific setting than a generic spirit of skin irritation.

The song calls her Yerima’s little sister, asks her to improve the town and says she dances in the clothing of her enslaved dependent because no one else will lend clothes for fear of infection. It also calls for a calabash of kola nuts. The infection explanation is recorded as part of the song and its gloss, without establishing supernatural causation. Her aliases remain together because the source gives them for this one notice.

Yerima’s sisterViolent scratching representationSchool spirits expel her
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Origins & earliest records

A. J. N. Tremearne combines interviews and descriptions of bori performances with comparative interpretation. These selected notices do not consistently name individual speakers; printed attributes are distinguished from his conjectures.

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Records & interpretation

Complete selected notice in chapter XXVII, printed pp. 379–380; complete chapter read.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    The Ban of the Bori: Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa

    A. J. N. Tremearne, collector and colonial-era interpreter · 1914

    Chapter XXVII, printed pp. 379–380; complete spirit notice and ritual representation.

Family & connections

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References

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  1. Digitized historical ethnographic accountTremearne — DangiraResearch access: 2026-10-05

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