Round 6: Tossup 22

In an attempt to perform this action, a woman brings a white goat before the Prophet Josiah on the Mountain of Jaw-Dropping Miracles. Ogechi attempts to perform this action using hair in a story in which it is facilitated by the call-and-response song “Who Will Greet You at Home?” Yejide repeatedly attempts to perform this action in Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s novel Stay With Me. A girl with the mark of a (15[1])cutlass on her head does this action nine times in a (*) Buchi Emecheta novel titled for (-5[1])The Joys of a certain concept. Obi prevents Clara from doing this action (-5[1])by using bribes from the UPU after learning that she is an osu. In Things Fall Apart, certain results of this action are placed into pots in the (10[1])Evil Forest and left to die. For 10 points, the Igbo traditionally consider it bad luck when what action results in twins? ■END■ (10[2])

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