One of these places is home to a corpse-littered town of sinners where the sun only shines half the year, called the City of Filth. In a play titled for these places, a prostitute doubles as a member of a court who orders a soldier’s castration and his pregnant wife’s execution. While in this sort of place, a novel’s hero encounters sand-elves, a sixteen-eyed monster, and other “ghommids.” In a play celebrating a country’s independence, the “Head” of these places invites the Dead Man and Dead Woman to a masquerade for the dead. The hunter “Compound of Spells,” or Akara-Ogun, ventures into one of these places in a book by D. O. Fágúnwà considered the first Yoruba novel. Wole Soyinka titled a play after a “Dance” of these natural places. For 10 points, in Things Fall Apart, Umuofia buries their dead in an “evil” type of what sort of place? ■END■
ANSWER: forests [or igbó; accept Forest of a Thousand Daemons or Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀; accept Dance of the Forests or the Evil Forest]
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