The Crocodile Society was a West African

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that practised

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. The Crocodile Society existed in

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and

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in the late 1800s and early 1900s.Mitchell, Harry (2002) Remote Corners: A Sierra Leone Memoir The Radcliffe Press, London, pp. 191–192, ISBN 1-86064-817-7 ;

References

*Harley, George Way (1941) ''Native African Medicine: With Special Reference to Its Practice in the Mano Tribe of Liberia'' Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 140 *Mitchell, Harry (2002) ''Remote Corners: A Sierra Leone Memoir'' The Radcliffe Press, London, pp. 191–192,
Refugee renewal tribunal: Liberian secret societies – Neegee society

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