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 cutlass on her head does this action nine times in a (*) Buchi Emecheta novel titled for The Joys of a certain concept. Obi prevents Clara from doing this action by using bribes from the UPU after learning that she is an osu. (-5[1])In Things Fall Apart, certain results of this action are placed into pots in the Evil Forest and left to die. For 10 points, the Igbo traditionally consider it bad luck when what action results in twins? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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