Ashanti Region, Ghana (folk belief)

Bosomtwe: The Lake Where Souls Say Farewell

Folklore — not a documented case

According to Ashanti belief, the souls of the dead come to Ghana's sacred Lake Bosomtwe to bid farewell to the goddess. The lake lies in a meteorite crater.

Lake Bosomtwe (Bosumtwi) lies about 30 kilometres southeast of Kumasi in Ghana, a nearly perfectly round lake surrounded by forested hills. It is Ghana's only natural lake and sits inside an impact crater about 10.5 kilometres wide.

The stories in this section are folk tales and legends; they are not verified, real events and should not be confused with the rest of the archive.

From the same region