my cousin died as a baby three times. the dibia carved his ankle so he'd stop coming back

Igbo call it Ogbanje. Yoruba call it Abiku — 'born to die.' The Yoruba say it's the emere, wicked spirits who climb into a pregnant woman's womb on purpose, get born, then die small small and come right back to the same mother. Over and over. To torment her. My auntie lost three babies before age t……