Allmuseri
An African secret society with secret rites akin to those of the Cabiric and Orphic Mysteries. Their reception takes place once a year in a wood, and the candidate is supposed to die. The Initiates surround the Neophyte and chant funereal songs. He is then brought to the temple erected for the purpose, and anointed with palm oil. After forty days of probation, he is said to have obtained a new soul, is greeted with hymns of joy, and conducted home. (See Heckethorn, Secret Societies.)