One reason that the baby can die is that the parents didn’t discover who the baby was in the wrugbe and they decide to return to that world because they miss the life they had. The baby will also face death when they aren’t treated properly and the baby’s wrugbe parents will call the young one back to their world so they don’t have to suffer anymore. “If your child dies, it may comfort you to remember that the younger the baby, the more the little one was still living in wrugbe” (pg.80). This proves that the baby never left the land of wrugbe, especially if the umbilical cord didn’t fall off. They are still a part of the wrugbe at that point. With the death of a child, the supernatural is apparent in the Beng culture because they are so young and attached to the world they were living in before that the supernatural takes control of these babies
One reason that the baby can die is that the parents didn’t discover who the baby was in the wrugbe and they decide to return to that world because they miss the life they had. The baby will also face death when they aren’t treated properly and the baby’s wrugbe parents will call the young one back to their world so they don’t have to suffer anymore. “If your child dies, it may comfort you to remember that the younger the baby, the more the little one was still living in wrugbe” (pg.80). This proves that the baby never left the land of wrugbe, especially if the umbilical cord didn’t fall off. They are still a part of the wrugbe at that point. With the death of a child, the supernatural is apparent in the Beng culture because they are so young and attached to the world they were living in before that the supernatural takes control of these babies