Word: lebeuf
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...claim that the disfigurement grew out of a perverse sense of beauty. Others offered an ingenious reverse explanation: originally, the duckbilled women had merely tried to make themselves unattractive to marauding Arab slave raiders who were seeking likely harem material. Both explanations are dismissed by French Sociologist Jean-Paul Lebeuf, a longtime expert on African ethnology and prehistory, who believes he has found the real clue in the lore of the upcountry Fali and Sara tribes...
...women of the Fali tribe, says Lebeuf, the toad represents the divine messenger who brought all wisdom from God to the first woman, the Fali Eve. The toad asked the woman to put plugs into her lips, shape her mouth like the wide palate of the toad, thus acquiring some of the toad's own strength and wisdom. No aids to beauty, the plugs were truly reli gious objects, passed on from mother to daughter. As told by women of the Sare tribe, however, the legend differs slightly. They believe that the first woman climbed down from heaven...
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