"In my recent researches I consider myself fortunate to come across a rare aged man who, among other topics, related to me the following story, which I venture to hope will appeal to all as more correct than any other given before:
“There lived at one time in Ile-Ife (the reputed Yoruba cradle of the world) a man who on account of his opulence was respected by all as the ruler of the place.
He bought a slave to whom he gave the nickname ‘'Adandorikodo,” but who for convenience was better known as Adan.
This slave behaved himself so splendidly that his master thought he should encourage him by giving him a wife to be his help-meet.
On doing this other slaves became jealous, and devised ways and means to get the coveted man out of favour; at last they decided and succeeded to get his wife to take a poison purporting to be a means of securing greater favour of their master for her husband.
The husband accepted it from his wife without the least suspicion and applied it on his person — the face in particular — with the result that within three days he developed leprosy.
All attempts to cure him proved a failure until the master was obliged to declare him an outcast with his family.
His two eldest sons agreed to interview their parents’ master with a view to appease his wrath and plead with him in their own behalf for special favour.
The master, knowing the elder of the two to be a rascal, declined to have anything to do with him, while he granted a ready interview to the younger.
By R. E. Dennett
Source: Journal of the African Society October 1916
The Ogboni and Other Secret Societies in Nigeria
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