Virtually every village has its own football pitch, and large numbers of spectators watch games between rival villages.

Its location had been secret, to prevent magical sabotage by a rival village, and was announced only just before the start.

But the same men danced throughout the night, periodically shouting war whoops in the direction of the rival village.

In due course a man called the Woodpecker and garbed as a bird left the dance and walked toward the rival village.

Mercer becomes aggressive and proceeds to steal electricity from a rival village, enlisting help from a woman he becomes romantically involved with.

Pino Gordo lies next to Coloradas de los Chavez, a rival village of Spanish-speaking people.

By 1904 rubber vines within 50 miles of Abir posts had been depleting, leading to violent clashes between rival villages over control of the remaining plants.

He then organised the people and made war on rival villages, who had constantly raided his newfound home, thus establishing himself as a successful warrior and leader.

There was a war in that place, and it was a small war, no more than a skirmish between the men of two rival villages.

The plot concerns two rival villages separated by a hill, and the competition between men from both villages over the daughter of Reverend Suh.