WHOLE VOL. ARAUCANIAN CHILD LIFE — HILGER I37 



married man. Having been spoken to in a friendly way by the man, 

 she interprets it as a sign that she has the privilege of going to his 

 home to be his wife. When she arrives there, she may not be wanted 

 by him or his family. In such instances she usually returns home. 



In case of pregnancy, the woman nearly always goes to the home 

 of the man and stays there, whether or not she is wanted. "Three 

 years ago, such a woman who was not wanted by the man's parents 

 stayed until the baby was born. She left the baby for the man to 

 care for and she herself went back to her own home. While the girl 

 was in his home the young man — he was only 20 — did not come home. 

 He was running around, staying in other places. Soon a second girl 

 came into his home, also pregnant. But I believe she stayed on ; at 

 least she said she would not leave the place; she knew she was not 

 welcome in her own home." A listener-in added, "I got my wife in 

 trouble intentionally so I could marry her. I fixed it so I did not 

 have to pay, and she was willing to come." 



Today Araucanians are expected to have a civil ceremony performed 

 in accordance with Chilean law, followed by a religious one according 

 to Church law. Many, however, are married without either. 



LOVE CHARMS 



Love charms are known but are seldom used today ; it is doubtful 

 that they were ever used extensively. "A certain grass that grows on 

 volcanoes can be used to make another person love you," said a man 

 in his twenties, to which his brother, also in his twenties, both sons of 

 a cacique, added, "A machi can be hired to prepare a drink which will 

 cause the one drinking it to become infatuated with another." In- 

 formants were unable — in instances unwilling, the writer believes — 

 to identify plants used in love charms. Plants so used are named in 

 Cooper's sources (1946, p. 722) and listed in Felix Jose (1916). In- 

 formants would not even acknowledge acquaintance with names of the 

 plants. Felix Jose notes (vol. i, p. 173) that the leaves of pallpall were 

 used by women to make an elixir of love ; that wadawe has power of 

 separating the affection of a rival from the person loved (p. 255) ; that 

 paillawe, mixed with four other ingredients, given to a person will 

 win that person's affection (p. 164) ; that lelliuken (unidentified) will 

 do likewise when crushed and put into toasted wheat which will be 

 eaten by the one whose affection is sought (p. 113) ; wenaqwe (un- 

 identified) is also used as a love charm (p. 253) ; waiiokintuwe (un- 

 identified), a moss, can be used effectively to make an unfaithful 

 lover remorseful (p. 257). 



