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mediate power of an unpropitious deity, by poison, or 
the incantations of the sorcerers employed by some 
cruel enemy. This belief gives Ihe sorcerers great in¬ 
fluence among the middling and lower orders ; and in 
times of protracted sickness, their aid is almost inva¬ 
riably sought by all who can procure a dog and a fowl 
for the sacrifice, and a piece or two of tapa as a fee 
for the priest. A dog and a fowl are all that are 
necessary for the ceremony; but the offerings to the 
god, and the fees to the priest, are regulated according 
to the wealth or rank of the individual on whose behalf 
the aid of sorcery is employed. 
The ceremonies performed are various ; but the most 
general is the kuni alii, broiling fire, a kind of anaanā, 
or sorcery, used to discover the person w hose incanta¬ 
tion has induced the illness of the party for whom it is 
performed. When a chief wishes to resort to it, he 
sends for a priest, who, on his arrival, receives a num¬ 
ber of hogs, dogs, and fowls, together with several 
bundles of tapa. Before he commences any of his 
operations, all persons, except the parties immediately 
concerned, retire from the house, which the priest tabu’s, 
and prohibits strangers from entering. He then kin¬ 
dles a small fire somewhere near the couch of the 
invalid, and covers it with stones. This being done, he 
kills one of the dogs by strangling it, and cuts off the 
head of one of the fowls, muttering all the while his 
prayers to the god he invokes. The dog, fowl, and 
pig, if there be one, are then cut open, embowelled, and 
laid on the heated stones, the priest continuing his 
incantations, and watching, at the same time, the offer¬ 
ings broiling on the fire. A small part only of these 
offerings are eaten by the priest, the rest remain on the 
