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STRANGE CUSTOMS OF SAVAGE RULERS. 
with which she rubbed herself before them all, telling them that this 
would render her invulnerable, and that now she could subdue the 
universe. Immediately, her subjects, seized with a savage enthu- 
siam, massacred all their male children, and immense quantities of 
this human ointment were made; and of which, they say, some is 
still preserved among the Jagas.” 
AVILD FREAKS OF A FEMALE SORCERER. 
All empire of Amazons was apparently contemplated. Not 
only were male children to be massacred, but women’s flesh was 
forbidden to be eaten. But she soon found it impossible to battle 
against nature. Mothers concealed their male infants; and though 
officers were appointed to be present at every birth to see that the 
law was carried out, yet, after a time, she found it necessary to 
order that the invulnerable ointment might be made of the bodies 
of infants captured in war. Whole territories were conquered and 
laid waste; and disaffection in her own army she kept down by 
having the forces continually employed. 
