Note 67 — Chapter IV

Or Danhgbwe-hwe, or Vodun-hwe, i.e., Fetish House par excellence. In all these words the n is highly nasal. A common snake is called Danh; the python, Danhgbwe, a purely Whydah word, which must not be confounded with Dagbwe, “good.” Dr. M‘Leod corrupts the word to Daboa. ’Gbwe means a bush, but according to my interpreters it is no component part of Danhgbwe. Hwe signifies, I have said, a house and grounds, in fact the whole establishment, as distinguished from Ho, a room (as in Zá-ho, a ceiling’d or storeroom).