BY TRADITION

Sawa folklore

1 record of Sawa folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

JenguWater · CameroonAmong the Sawa peoples of coastal Cameroon, a jengu (plural miengu; Bakweri liengu) is a water spirit of river, estuary, and sea. Living cults honour miengu as healers, fortune-bringers, and intermediaries with the ancestors, especially in the Duala Ngondo rites on the Wouri.