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felt by the head on which it grew. But this is exactly what 

 the savage has not come to know. He feels that the subjective 

 bond is unbroken in his own mindj and he believes that the 

 objective bond^ which his mind never gets clearly separate from 

 it^ is unbroken too. Therefore, in the remotest parts of the 

 world, the sorcerer gets clippings of the hair of his enemy, 

 parings of his nails, leavings of his food, and practises upon 

 them, that their former possessor may fall sick and die. This 

 is why South Sea Island chiefs had servants always following 

 them with spittoons, that the spittle might be buried in some 

 secret place, where no sorcerer could find it, and why even 

 brothers and sisters had their food in separate baskets. In the 

 island of Tanna, in the New Hebrides, there was a colony of 

 disease-makers who lived by their art. They collected any 

 nahak or rubbish that had belonged to any one, such as the 

 skin of a banana he had eaten, wrapped it in a leaf like a cigar, 

 and burnt it slowly at one end. As it burnt, the owner got 

 worse and worse, and if it was burnt to the end, he died. When 

 a man fell ill, he knew that some sorcerer was burning his 

 rubbish, and shell-trumpets, which could be heard for miles, 

 were blown to signal to the sorcerers to stop, and wait for the 

 presents which would be sent next morning. Night after night, 

 Mr. Turner used to hear the melancholy too-tooing of the 

 shells, enti'eating the wizards to stop plaguing their victims. 

 And when a disease-maker fell sick himself, he believed that 

 some one was burning his rubbish, and had his shells too blown 

 for mercy .^ It is not needful to give another description after 

 this, the process is so perfectly the same in principle wherever 

 it is found, all over Polynesia,^ in Africa,'^ in India,'* in North 

 and South America,^ in Australia.^ It is alive to this day in 

 Italy, where a man does not like to trust a lock of his hair in 

 the hands of any one, lest he should be bewitched or enamoured 

 against his will.''' 



1 Turner, ' Polynesia,' pp. 18, 89, 424. 



^ Polack, ' Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders ;' London, 1840, vol. 

 i. p. 283. Ellis, vol. ii. p. 228. WiUiams, ' Fiji,' vol. i. p. 249. Pui-clias, vol. ii. 

 p. 1652, etc. 3 Casalis, p. 276. ■^ Roberts, Or. Illustr. p. 470. 



5 Klemm, C. G., vol. ii. p. 168. Ktz Eoy, in Tr. Eth. Soc. ; London, 1861, p. 5. 



•5 Stanbridge, id., p. 229. 



'^ Story, ' Roba di Eoma j' London, 1863, vol. ii. p. 342. 



