die iraiQttai (auf Kreta), in Altersklassen (indianischer Banden). Durch 

 Fetische ' Afrikas) übt sich die Polizei, im Tabu, nach der Vielfachheit 

 seiner Formen (auf indonesischen Inseln). ..Indonesien", Lf. I (S. 78). 



Betreffs der „daemonology and the worship of genii" heisst 

 es (b. Schoolcraft): In these ceremonies there is affected to be 

 held in the mouth the materialized forms of disease, extracted from 

 the thorax and stomach; birds are affected to be reanimated with 

 life; and evil genii to be expelled from various parts of the frame. 

 Most of the tricks would be pronounced very miserable exhibitions 

 of necromancy and legerdemain, by persons accustomed to the arts 

 of Operators in this line, in civilized life. But the exhibitions are 

 deemed very wonderful by the Indians, who regard them as mani- 

 festations of a spiritual presence, and of the power and favour of 

 the class of secret and personal gods who favour the Operator. He 

 affects to converse, in a mystical manner with spirits and gods, and 

 to wield the power Controlling the life and death of individuals. 

 Under ,these beliefs, his hold on these assemblies is of the deepest 

 cast. They look up to his wonderful exhibitions with awe and 

 fear. They quail before them, and the whole assembly of listeners 

 are in a State of excitement that borders on phrenzy. The chief 

 of these occult arts is a phrenzic himself, and as he shakes his 

 magic rattles, and beats his mysterious little tamborin, he fancies 

 the heavens and the earth are his listeners, and that the whole 

 visible creation bows before him (bei den Ontanogons). All 

 Indian tribes have in the course of their tribal history, been 

 under the dominion of these sorcerers. The sorcerers are 

 regarded as men of great sanctity, wisdom and self-denial. They 

 affect to lively poorly, to be above selfish motives, to be in com- 

 munication with the spirits of the elemental world, and to be at 

 all times under an intiuence which it would be the extreme of 

 human folly to resist. It was under such infiuences that the 

 Shawnee prophet wielded such an enlarged inrluence on the banks 



