A case of adultery occurred in Kikuyu in which a man, having seduced a woman afterwards induced her to take the oath of muma that she would not tell her husband. After a time she disclosed this to her husband, and shortly after she died. The husband then sued for blood money, but the elders refused his demand on the ground that if the woman had held her tongue the muma would not have killed her. The husband then demanded that the man should jump over the corpse seven times; this he refused to do and the elders would not insist, as they held that the woman had in fact committed suicide.²

²Hobley, C.W.n/an/an/an/a, , 243 (H. F. and G. Witherby. By permission).