THE KOMACHO—TORTURES. 1g 
They do this with the hope of creating a diversion, to induce the torment- 
ing spirits to quit their relatives and assault themselves. They believe that 
by distracting or dividing their attention they can overpower and expel 
them. 
When dancing around the funeral pyre they show the same passionate 
and frenzied sorrow and make the same fanatic manifestations as do the 
Senel. Everything belonging to the deceased, even to his horse, is sacri- 
ficed. 
