In sickness, sacrifices of fowls and goats are made to appease the spirits.

It is imagined that they wish to take the living away from earth and all its enjoyments.

When one man has killed another, a sacrifice is made, as if to lay the spirit of the victim.

A sect is reported to exist who kill men in order to take their hearts and offer them to the Barimo.
The chieftainship is elective from certain families.

Among the Bangalas of the Cassange valley the chief is chosen from three families in rotation.