Word: godjam
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...commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...
...most autocratic of rulers, but Ras and his gorgeously clad Marshals "batted not an eyelid" which quite intrigued the people and caused them to "vive" him more than ever. While in Paris the Prince occupied the royal suite at the Quai d'Orsay; the Marshals-Ras Hailov, Viceroy Godjam, Ras Seyoum, Ras Nado and Governor Ilubador-were housed elsewhere...
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