<diacritize> One should be careful about doing favors, lest they come back to haunt one. Compare Oore ti igunnugun se . . . Awe is a town near Oyo; the proverb obviously refers to an incident in which someone did a favor and reaped disaster. The reference to the vulture recalls the folktale in which the bird volunteered to carry a sacrifice to heaven to end a draught and got caught in the downpour resulting from his successful mission on its return. <yor>One should be careful about doing favors, lest they come back to haunt one. Compare Oore tí igúnnugún ṣe . . . Awẹ is a town near Ọyọ; the proverb obviously refers to an incident in which someone did a favor and reaped disaster. The reference to the vulture recalls the folktale in which the bird volunteered to carry a sacrifice to heaven to end a draught and got caught in the downpour resulting from his successful mission on its return. 