Feud limiting and ending conflicts between individuals and groups who are related by kinship, as described by anthropologist Max Gluckman in his article "The Peace in the Feud" in 1955. A blood feud is a feud with a cycle of retaliatory violence, with the relatives of someone who has been killed or otherwise wronged or dishonored seeking vengeance by killing or otherwise physically punishing the culprits or their relatives. In the English-speaking world, the Italian word vendetta is used to mean a blood feud, but in reality it means (personal) "vengeance" or "revenge", originating from the Latin "vindicta" (vengeance), while the
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess are killed for their behaviour, one murdered and two forced to drink a "fatal draught" of "sassa wood". Seeing this, Guanya Pau and Jassah quickly leave and head back to the road. The girls come across another village where they are welcomed warmly by a family into their home. As they are preparing to sleep for a night, a "modest-looking fellow" enters the home and identifies Guanya Pau upon sight. Not knowing who the man is, the girls take flight. They continue to run for many hours into the next day. As they slow down in an open field they