Note 125 — Chapter XVII

So we still say “thunderbolts.” According to Barbot, on the Gold Coast (I have heard the same everywhere, from that place to Camaroons), “when it thunders they say the Deity—with reverence be it spoken—is diverting himself with his wives.” The Anglo-African is, “Man for top, he play for bush.” Others again say, “Great devil he talk angry.” A common imprecation in Dahome is, So ye mi, “Thunder fall upon me if,” &c., &c.