Editing Odinala (section)

====Ogbanje====
{{Main|Ogbanje}}
An ''ọgbanje'' is a reincarnating [[evil spirit|evil or revengeful spirit]], that would deliberately plague a family with misfortune. In folklore, the ''ọgbanje'', upon being born by the mother, would deliberately die after a certain amount of time (usually before [[puberty]]) and then come back and repeat the cycle, causing the family grief. This time period varies between minutes, hours, days and years. [[Igbo culture#Female circumcision|Female circumcision]] was sometimes thought to get rid of the evil spirit. Finding the evil spirit's ''[[Iyi-uwa]]'', which is buried in a secret location, would ensure that the ''ọgbanje'' would never plague the family with misfortune again. The ''Iyi-uwa'' is a stone that the ''ọgbanje's'' way of coming back to the human world and is also a way of finding its targeted family. The stone is usually buried deep enough to not have been hidden by a child. The ''iyi-uwa'' is dug out by a priest and destroyed. Female ''ọgbanje'' die during pregnancies along with the baby, male ''ọgbanje'' die before the birth of a wife's baby or the baby dies. The child is confirmed to no longer be an ''ọgbanje'' after the destruction of the stone or after the mother successfully gives birth to another baby.<ref name="nnam2007" />