The good-looking young man who asked for work married the girl on the oath that she would not pry into his secret: every midnight he went out changed into a dog, because he was the Devil. The Awó marked her the ebbó at the foot of the carob, the jutía fell on the Devil, and with the afoshé of their heads the girl saw him and was saved.
Prayer: Oshe Ekue Olori Buruku Toy Apan Obini Eku Ebe Leri Omobini Awo Osheleu Adifafun Orunmila.
Ebbó: akukó, eyelé, jutía, idú, ataré, quail, guinea hen and wood pigeon, every kind of herb, opolopo owó.
In a far-off land there lived a married couple who had an unmarried daughter, and one day a good-looking young man came asking for work. The girl was drawn to him and asked her father to give him work; he told her: «You do not even know who he is or where he comes from.» The girl begged so hard that her father took him on. For a year they worked the land, and afterward the girl and the man married. Then he told her: «There is a secret in my life. Every day, at midnight, I have to go out. Do not trouble yourself to know my secret. Do you swear it to me?» She swore it, and they were living happily.
Every night, at twelve, the man went out, since he was the Devil, who disguised himself as a dog. The girl felt well with him, but that secret would not let her sleep, and she went to the house of Awó Oshé Lerí, the diviner of that land, who saw Oshé Níwe for her and told her that she was living with the Devil. He marked her ebbó and told her that, when he went out, she should go and throw the ebbó at the foot of a carob tree.
When she did it, she met a black dog who tried to attack her. But the jutía (ekú) was asleep in the carob, took fright and fell on top of the Devil, who was the dog, and he ran off. The jutía died, and the girl took her to Orunmila, who took her head, made afoshé of it, gave an eyelé to the jutía's lerí, and with the dove's head made afoshé with charcoal and prayed the sign over it, telling the girl: «Pass this over your head every day and you will see what you want to see.»
When she got home she did it, and saw that her husband was the Devil. He, on smelling the afoshé, fled; and so she was saved, thanks to Orunmila and to the jutía.
Note: the ashé of this sign is made with cinnamon, incense, rosemary, rue, basil, muna, marjoram, mint, sixteen ataré, yam, the heart and offal of a jutía, and the heads of a dove, a guinea hen, a quail and a wood pigeon. It is for the Awó of this sign to work with.