| Walusubo agrees to give him the bag in the future and tells him to eat the sugar leaves in the meantime | Oftentimes, these diseases represented the physical manifestations of sorcery to the Fore people, which contributed to warfare and the development of religious rituals against sorcery |
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| Land is passed down through the male lineage; Fore culture is heavily | For example, when a man consummates his marriage, he does not tell his kinsmen as to do so would be shameful admitting that he is contaminated from sexual contact with a woman |
Though the Fore people also dispose of their dead in other ways, the most common method up to the 1960s was transumption, or consumption of their dead.
| The area in which nokoti live ples masalai in Melanesian is considered sacred and should not be disturbed | Despite being consistently engaged in warfare, the Fore were characterized by their tempered disdain for warfare and preference for peace |
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| They took great care to consume all parts, even drying and crushing the bones and all used cooking utensils and mixing it in with vegetables so that nothing was missed | It is characterized by loss of coordination and control over movement and it ultimately leads to death |
Anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt spent time with the North Fore in 1953, while missionaries and traders penetrated further south.
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