ABSTRACT
On my first fieldtrip to Ò. yọ´, Nigeria in 1999, I often walked around the town with my friend and research collaborator, divining priest (babaláwo) Táíwò Abímbọ´lá. His name identifies him as a twin, as all first-born Yorùbá twins are called Táíwò or Táyé and the second-born is called Kẹ´hìndé. I quickly lost count of how many people I had been introduced to called Táíwò or Kẹ´hìndé in Ò. yọ´. Táíwò Abímbọ´lá’s late mother, whom I only knew as Ìyábejì (mother of twins), had given birth to two sets of twins, and told me that there was a woman in Ò. yọ´ who had five sets of living twins.
