vil!' — 'He'll no slip awa noo' — and where, 

 in mercy, did they find room for 'anither' 

 knot!) 



'To their utter astonishment' the medi- 

 cine-man freed himself as readily as before. 



'My men were at a loss what to think or 

 say.' 



The Church forbids sorcery, and has 

 from the beginning; but there is still resort 

 to it in the far interior, where some urgent 

 need arises. Though the jongleur stands 

 condemned as a Falet dii Diablc and a 

 Ministre de I'Enfer, a few are still living 

 who know and practise the arts — making 

 peace later for their sin. Condemnation 

 attaches to the means rather than to the 

 end : to the commerce with the devil and 

 not to those innocent, even praiseworthy, 

 objects for which he is invoked. 



Nigh upon 300 years ago Pere Le Jeune 

 proposed to himself the question 'whether 

 the Indian Sorcerers have communication 

 with the Devil'. His view at the outset 

 was that 'all the things these Sorcerers did 

 were only Deceptions they contrived' — by 

 means of sleight-of-hand and ventrilo- 

 quism. He describes the erection of the 

 'Tabernacle', the inexplicable way in which 

 the stout building was agitated, the strange 

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