The Wide World Magazine Vol 12

Author : George Newnes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259506096
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 2 written by George Newnes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 2: An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative; Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport; October, to March, 1898-9 N a case of fever the natives resorted to charms to drive away the exil spirit that was supposed to be troubling the patient. The universal superstition about all maladies is that they are caused by the evil eye, directed against the sufl'erer by some enemy. Should one member of a tribe be stricken down with any disease, his friends at once come to the conclusion that he has been pointed at by a member of another tribe who owed him a grudge he has, in short, been bewitched, and an expedition is promptly organized to seek out and punish the individual in question and all his tribe. From this it is obvious that war is of pretty frequent occurrence. And not only so, but every death is likewise the signal for a tribal war. There is no verdict of Death from natural causes. As a rule, the body of the dead brave was placed upon a platform erected in the forks of trees, and his weapons would be neatly arranged below. Then, as decay set in, and the body began to crumble away, the friends and chiefs would come and observe certain mystic signs, which were supposed to give information as to what tribe or individual had caused the death of the deceased warrior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.