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ness of the wife's infidelity and may have further inhibited the husband's 

 impulse to retaliate. 



The hiring of a witch to kill an unfaithful wife is an ancient Mohave pattern, 

 mentioned even in folklore (Devereux, 1948 h). Since the bewitching was 

 done by request and for pay, the witch would, naturally, not allow his victim 

 to utter his name. 



The likelihood that the wife's fatal illness was motivated by guilt, and was 

 therefore presumably psychosomatic, was spontaneously mentioned by Hama : 

 Utce: herself. 



Utce : herself. Moreover, Hilma Tumak's self -destructive silence perfectly fits 

 the pattern ascribed to the willing victims of witches, except in that she had been 

 bewitched for pay, instead of being (preconsciously) enthralled by the witch 

 (pt. 7, pp. 383-386.) 



