This was however triggered today during Chelsea vs Stoke City match when Mourhino picked up a bottle of Water, opened the cork and poured some of the water on the ground first before drinking it. That act actually reminded me of what we equally do over here especially in rural areas. Before an elder takes any form of liquid products, be it palm wine, beer even water, he must first of all pour some on the ground and then drink the remaining. I dont really know what this practice means and i'm sure not only in my place i've seen this as Mourhino yet again confirmed it today. The young generation may not really know about this and believe if the elderly ones can enlightened the young onse, it'll help.

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I don't believe in it but I thibnk it means u first give the gods or potential pple dat can hurt u (aye) their share before u drink. Its a form of appeasing to them, so u don't get harnmed by drinking whatver it is ur drinking.although some pple may just do it out of habit, or they may have a silly belief attached to it.

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I don't believe in it but I thibnk it means u first give the gods or potential pple dat can hurt u (aye) their share before u drink. Its a form of appeasing to them, so u don't get harnmed by drinking whatver it is ur drinking.although some pple may just do it out of habit, or they may have a silly belief attached to it.

Nice one but i think it has more to do with appeasing the gods than anything else. For example, when a traditional ruler wants to carry out a kind of traditional rite, you'd see him pouring drink bit by bit on the ground while calling on all the names of the known gods in the land and each calling accompanies a drop of drink poured on the ground perhaps to invoke them. I think this is where people copy the practice with whether they really know what it means or not.