"They know how to use local medicines to the best effect," says Aliyu Raibu, as a barber who doubled as a therapist prepares to treat his aching back using an ancient blood-suction technique, in which a dried-out bull's horn draws painful clotted blood from a tiny incision in the skin.
The rubric for the page, which also appeared on the paper's front page, is a male gender symbol, the circle with the arrow, with cartoon-ish devil horns drawn on it, which looks a bit like a Halloween invitation.
Horns: Draw two upside-down V's connected on top of the oval for the horns.
A considerable demand for ivory, rhinoceros horn and gold drew foreign traders towards trading centres along the eastern and southern coasts of Africa since earliest times.
That said, around 120 Malian fans drove through Malabo yesterday on pick-ups, waving flags, tooting horns and drawing waves from bemused locals.
Earthy horn-voicings drawn from Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, and wild free-jazz, raw-rock blues are framed in complex arrangements that suggested miniature orchestras: the Ellingtonesque flute counterpoint of Pastel Rhapsody; the edgier woodwind, brass, bass and percussion on Inflation Blues.
And no doubt longer horns would draw more blood.
Weaponry used in male male combat, such as ungulate antlers or beetle horns, often draw heavily on resource pools that can be limiting in diets (Moczek and Nijhout 2004).
Asking to borrow the Guardian's pen, he drew two horns on the caricature's head.
Spectators cheered and the 65 sailors on board blew the horns as the ship drew into the harbor in Dublin, the site of a ninth-century Viking settlement.
At another point, the artist drew a blue horn of plenty with yellow stars and fire coming out of it.
