The igbo people had many practices one of them included the week of peace. The week of peace uus when the people of some of the villages like the one in things fall apart, it is called “ the week of peace because no violence is to be done, everyone is nice to each other and no work needs to be done. The villagers plant their yams or crops this time around it is to be said that if anybody break the rules of the week of peace then there will come a bad crop season and their crops will die” (batisan 61) Another superstitious belief is that if somebody dies their body is usually put in the evil forest so their spirits can roam around the forest and the same goes for people who kill themselves, people of the villages would refuse to touch
