Roles | Purpose of uses | Folk varieties | Organ | Use | Ethnic groups | Percentage of responses |
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Protection against evil spirits | Fields protection | Akpakoun wéwé, Mitoyikoun | Whole plant | Planted in the fields | Mahi, Fon | 29.1 |
Homes protection | Akpakoun rouge, Sessé | Whole plant | Sow next to the houses | Mahi | 20.7 | |
Pregnancy protection | Kpankoui rouge | Leaves | Triturate the leaves in water, then wash with each 3Â months so three times before delivery | Adja | 4.2 | |
Protection against enemies attacks | Akpakoun vovo | Whole plant | Go naked towards the plant in the middle of the night and praise the plant and ask for protection against your enemies. Then take the leaves with which you shower after infusion | Mahi | 8.3 | |
Treatment of supernaturally caused illnesses | Bewitchment | Séssé | Roots | Triturate the roots in a little water and add the palm kernel oil and drink the potion | Fon | 4.2 |
Traditional ceremonies | Offering to certain deities | Akpakoun wéwé | Seeds | Seeds are prepared and offered to the deities during the rites | Fon | 4.2 |
Hunters’ ceremonies | Akpalakoun founfou | Seeds | Use to attract animals to hunters | Ifé | 4.2 | |
Twins ceremony | Sessé | Seeds | Seeds are prepared and served to the twins and the family concerned with palm oil at the end of the ceremony | Nago, Ifé | 8.3 | |
Traditional family ceremony | Kpalakoun kpikpa | Seeds | Seeds are cooked with Kersting’s groundnut and served to the guests | Idaasha | 4.2 | |
Guèlèdè traditional dance (ancestor cults) | Séssé | Seeds | Seeds are prepared and served to the followers which helps them to have a good memory | Ifé | 4.2 | |
Spiritual warfare | Fight his enemies | Séssé | Seeds | At the ceremony the prepared beans are delivered to the fetish with the name of the enemy | Idaasha | 4.2 |
Love potion | Bring a person to love you | Sonouhoué | Leaves | The leaves are mixed with spider eggs and the last drops of human urine wanting to be loved. The juice obtained is applied to the eyes of the bewitched person. | Mahi | 4.2 |