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the hori (spirit) sect may divine and prescribe remedies for illnesses. Charms 
are sought even from Europeans. 
Love-charms consist of decoctions which must be eaten by the person desired, 
and there is usually some spittle of the amorous swain contained in them. 
Wives can deceive their husbands with complacence by using the earth from a 
erave, or better still, the hand of a corpse, for these produce a soporific effect. 
The evil-eye and the evil-mouth are greatly feared, so many charms and amulets 
are used against them, the most common being the hand or ‘five’ (fingers). If 
a shred of the clothing or some other article intimately connected with the evil 
wisher can be obtained the influence can be neutralised. The remains of a 
dog’s food are a very powerful charm. 
The Mohammedan Hausas (and Arabs) worship Allah so long as all goes well, 
but if he fails them they have recourse to the magic of the pagans. In Tunis 
if the Arab prayers fail to have any effect upon a drought, the Hausas go in 
procession to a shrine on a hill near the city, and there offer a sacrifice, summon 
the bori, and perform the takai dance. While the sacrificial animal is being 
roasted pieces of the meat are stolen by some of the youths, others pursuing 
them, this being supposed to drive away evil influences. There are also charms 
for preventing rain. 
Agriculture plays an important part in the life of the people in their own 
country. Sacrifices are offered to Uwar-Gwona (Farm-Mother) when the corn 
begins to appear, and she increases the crops of her worshippers. Magiro is 
another corn-spirit, but he demands a human victim. 
Hunters and warriors can make talismans which confer invisibility, and if a 
young girl with her first teeth helps, the wearer will be protected against all; 
but boys with their first teeth can wound persons protected only by ordinary 
charms. The kind of death struggles of a victim can be determined by sym- 
pathetic actions during the preparation of the poison. 
Wrestling was once a religious rite. By a proper initiation and by regular 
sacrifices a youth could become invincible, for whenever he wrestled a red cock 
would appear upon his head, a white hen at his feet, and the sight of these 
would render his opponents powerless. 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 
The following Papers were read :-— 
1. Recent Archeological Discoveries in the Channel Islands.1 
By R. R. Marett, M.A., D.Se. 
1. The cave known as La Cotte de St. Brelade, on the south coast of Jersey, 
was excavated—to the extent of about one-third—by the Société Jersiaise in 1910 
and 1911, and provided a rich spoil of relics, including human remains, belonging 
to the Mousterian Period (see Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1911, 1912). As members of the 
British Association party will remember who visited the site after the Ports- 
mouth meeting, this cave occurs at the north-east corner of a deep ravine in the 
granite cliff, the sides of the ravine rising vertically some 40 feet apart, while the 
wall to the rear is masked by a steep and heavy talus. In August and Septem- 
ber 1912 the proprietor, Mr. G. F. B. de Gruchy, and the present writer carried 
on excavations beneath the talus at the south-east corner, and were successful in 
unearthing the entrance of a second cave—or, possibly, of a cave running right 
round the back of the ravine, and hence continuous with La Cotte. Here, after 
some 250 tons of rock-rubbish had been removed, a Mousterian floor with 
characteristic implements was reached at a depth of 27 feet. There seemed 
good prospect of finding bone in decent condition, as the soil was dry—far 
drier than that of La Cotte. Unfortunately at this point operations were cut 
short by the dangerous state of the overhanging talus, no funds being available for 
its systematic demolition. An application will be made to the British Association 
’ To be published in Archaologia. 
