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Overview

Kworrom is connected with a precise roadside setting: he lives beneath the roots of trees that grow across a road and makes passing travellers stumble. Tremearne says that travellers know him well. The accompanying song tells boys to stop coming for wood, giving the spirit’s place among trees an additional conflict with people collecting material rather than merely naming an abstract forest power.

The performance begins with a fall onto the face, continues with lying on the back, and then turns the body so that the legs are above the head. The song names him as seizing someone and bending the buttocks. Continual movement and diarrhoea are also attributed to him, while the collector’s tentative diagnostic comparison is separate. The source supports the root-dwelling traveller threat and a specific bodily representation without a guessed animal shape.

Lives under roadside tree rootsMakes passers-by stumbleAcrobatic recumbent representation
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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 XXIII, printed pp. 342; chapter read through its ending.

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 XXIII, printed pp. 342; complete attributed spirit notice and representation.

Family & connections

A source-supported family tree or inspiration record has not yet been compiled for this profile. Related reading below indicates a connection in subject matter, not a proven lineage or creative influence.

References

Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.

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

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