Limb of Fig Tree That Fell Coinciding with Fall of Government

Ethiopia

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Date of image: 1991
Creator: Lewis, Herbert S.
Place: Ethiopia
Source: University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries, Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent; African Studies Collection

The coincidence of the limb falling when the government fell was interpreted as an omen.

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