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trance the Indian takes for a revelation. The accompanying 
ceremonial which the medicine-man carries out as part of the 
treatment in order to work upon the imagination of the patient 
and his relatives is very similar in every tribe, no matter 
whereabouts in South America it be. He will swing the magic 
rattle and maintain a monotonous song often for hours at a 
wood—often even beetles, caterpillars, centipedes, etc., appa- 
rently as if these had been in the patient’s body. Very force 
of So aeagiay cures the patient at once!’’ ! 
~ A. 
Potent factor in upholding magical practices, especially when 
tis combined with hypnotism. * * * * *~ * 
Sugeestion alone, without the aid of hypnotism, can effect 
Vonders, and faith cures and Christian science are by no means 
least indifferent; and probably an equal number who materially 
lengthened their lives by the mere determination not to die. 
ust as him 
ild into his mime, so he is a good spectator, entering into 
’s acting, herein again resembling the 
. lOws to be but a * pretended” lion. Even if the make-believe 
«wore or less make-believe to the victim, it is hardly less effica- 
. Hutchinson’ g 1001-2. 
s Customs of the World, Vol. II, pp- 
* Haddon’s Magic and Fetishism (Ed. 1910), pp. 53-55. 
