14 Interesting Facts About The Yoruba People/Culture You Don't About.

The Yoruba People Are Known For Their Well Preserved And Observed
Culture , And Your Culture detemines Your Actual self..
This Are 14 Things You Might Not Know about The Yoruba People..
1. The language of the Yorubas, known as Yoruba, belongs to the
Congo-Kordofanian language family. Yoruba as a language has many
dialects, but most of its speakers are able to understand each other.
2. The Yoruba constitute over 35 million people in total with majority
of this population from Nigeria. The Yorubas make up 21% of the
Nigerian population.
3. According to the CIA World Fact book, the Yoruba are one of the
largest ethnic groups in Africa.
4. Traditional childbirth in Yorubaland does not support anyone
younger than the mother to be present at the birth.
5. When a child is born in a traditional Yoruba society, the infant is
taken to the backyard with the umbilical cord bound tightly with
thread before it is cut. The placenta is then buried in the backyard.
The child is bathed with a loofah sponge and rubbed with palm oil on
the placenta burial spot.  Then the child is held by the feet and
given three shakes to make him/her strong and brave. A naming ceremony
is held after 8 days.
6. A strapped baby must never fall from its mother's back:It is an
abomination in Yorubaland for a baby to fall from its mother's back.
And this is why many new mothers are warned to strap their babies
firmly to their back again if their baby is not well positioned. It is
believed that a male child that falls from its mother's back will
always lose his wife at adulthood, and a female will always have a
lover die atop her when she grows up.
7. Pregnant women must never walk the streets in broad daylight:What
this means is that pregnant women must not go about the streets or go
to the market or go to the stream when the sun is high up at its
zenith – between 12 pm – 3 pm when the sun is at its brightest. It is
believed that evil spirits roam the town when the sun is at its
brightest and they could enter into a pregnant woman, making her to
give birth to deformed babies.
8. Whistling at night is forbidden:Men and women are not allowed to
whistle at nights in Yorubaland. Whistling at nights is believed to
invite demons and evil spirits into the house to torment people.
Additionally, it is believed that whistling could attract snakes and
reptiles into the house at night.
9. Adultery is forbidden:It is forbidden for married women to commit
adultery with another man who is not their husbands. This taboo is
more critical against women than against men, so it is highly frowned
upon for a wife to cheat on her husband. A man that suspects that his
wife is cheating could be tempted to lace her withmagun, and this
would lead to the death of her adulterous lover.
10. A king must never look inside his royal crown.
12. Corpse of a person that drowns must not be brought for burial at
home:What this means is that the corpse of a person who dies in a
river must be buried near the river, and the corpse of a person who
falls from a tree must be buried at the base of the tree. Bringing
their corpses home is believed to irk the gods who may cause people to
die without causes.
13. A king must never prostrate for anyone again in his entire life:A
royal king is considered a demi-god in Yorubaland and he must never
prostrate to greet anyone in his entire life.
14. Eating of cats, dogs, pigs are forbidden:It is generally
considered unclean to consume dog meat, pork, and cat meat among
others. While many Yorubas will never taste dog meat but gladly
consume African rabbit (Okete), the Ondo people considersOketean
abomination but will gladly eat dog meat with relish.
SOURCES-NigeriaBullettin,Naija-Connect.
Compiled By-Alhajikuipid