Crossword-Solution: ANKOLE 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Hence the country was so infested by lions that people, benighted in fields, often slept for safety in trees.(864) Similarly, the Makanga, who occupy the angle between the Zambesi and Shire rivers, refrain from killing lions because they believe that the spirits of dead chiefs enter into them.(865) The Amambwe universally suppose that their reigning chief turns at death into a lion.(866) The Bahima of Ankole, in Central Africa, also imagine that their dead kings are changed into lions.

These women’s tracks may be seen at every Caffre village.(196) Similarly among the Bahima, a cattle-breeding tribe of Ankole, in Central Africa, no menstruous woman may drink milk, lest by so doing she should injure the cows; and she may not lie on her husband’s bed, no doubt lest she should injure him.