Kpelle
Americannoun
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a member of an Indigenous people living mainly in Liberia.
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the Mande language of the Kpelle people.
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Twins are thought by the Kpelle to do wonders; they even say that "a twin surpasses every medicine-man."
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
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