ABSTRACT
From a case brought before the Ikotobo Native Court it would appear that among the Ubium Ibibios the death penalty was inflicted upon a woman who married a man from another town. Many indications seem to point to the probability that among the tribes of a district communal marriage was practised at no very distant date. A case showing the savage jealousy of a childless wife to one more favoured was reported by an Efik woman informant. A terrible revenge sometimes taken by discarded wives upon husbands who have rejected them was confided to the author by an Efik woman. The woman could not bear to leave him, and as she was young and pretty the pitying neighbours advised her to dance once more before her husband.
