Far from here lived a couple with their daughter, still unmarried. One day a handsome young man came looking for work. The daughter became fond of him and begged her father to take him on. The father hesitated, because nobody knew where he came from or who he was, but faced with so much insistence he gave in.
For twelve months the young man and the daughter worked the land, and then they married. After the wedding, he told her he kept a secret: every night, when twelve o'clock came, he had to be away. He demanded that she not try to find it out and asked her for an oath. She gave it, and life went on happily.
Every midnight the husband left. He was the Devil, who took on the appearance of a dog. She liked his company, but the mystery cost her sleep, so she visited the diviner of the place, Awó Oshe Leri. In the consultation Oshe Niwe came out, and so she learned that she was living with the Devil. The diviner marked an ebbó for her and told her that, the next time her husband went out, she should leave it beside a carob tree.
She did so. On the way a black dog planted itself in front of her, ready to bite. But high in the carob tree a jutía (ekú) was sleeping; it was startled, fell on the dog, who was the Devil, and he fled in terror. The jutía did not survive the blow, and the young woman took it to Orunmila.
Orunmila separated the head of the jutía and turned it into afoshé. To that head he offered a pigeon; then he took the head of the pigeon, also made it afoshé by mixing it with charcoal, and spoke the prayer of the sign over it. He told the young woman: “Apply this to your head every day and you will see what you wish.”
Back home she did it and confirmed that her husband was the Devil. As soon as the smell of the afoshé reached him, he fled. So the young woman was saved, thanks to Orunmila and the jutía.
This sign also has its own ashé, which is prepared to work the Awó of the sign. Its composition is not included in this public part.