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to another, that he shall become rich ; a third is 

 told, that he is to fall sick ; a fourth, that he shall 

 die ; a fifth, that he shall be successful in hunting. 

 A family is admonished to sacrifice and pray at a 

 certain shrine, to appease an offended God ; he 

 prophecies when there will be a scarcity, and when 

 it will rain. Thus, his predictions being verified, the 

 people have faith in them; and one, who is sick, 

 attends him for advice, which is afforded the follow- 

 ing morning, when the Demanno has dreamt of the 

 case, or God, having appeared to him in his vision, 

 informed him what will be the fate of the patient, 

 and what he must do to get well. Another informs 

 him, his crops are not so good as usual, and desires 

 to know which God is offended, and what he must 

 do to appease him. A sportsman informs him, that 

 he is not so fortunate as usual, and seeks to know 

 what he must do to be so. Some ask, at what shrine 

 they must make their offerings. All who confuk 

 this oracle must make a present, and return the 

 following day for an answer. On the first full moon 

 of January, after his inspiration, he sallies out of his 

 house, runs about, and pretends to be frantick: but 

 neither injures nor speaks to any one. He approaches 

 the door of his chief, and makes si ems to have a cock, 

 and a hen's egg, brought to him : the latter he im- 

 mediately eats, and wringing off the head of the cock, 

 sucks the reeking blood, and throws away the body \ 

 whence he proceeds to unfrequented rivers and jun- 

 gles, where he remains seven, or nine days, and 

 is supposed to be fed by the Deity, whom he repre- 

 sents 



