Show USE VICTIMS VICTIMS' HEADS TO SCALP SPOOKS Murder and Sacrifice Religious Religious Re Re- Rite Rile in Burma 1 live In Inthe Inthe inthe Tile The hend hunting head hunting Jas the mountain fastnesses of Upper Bur Bur- the head hunting head hunting Inn ma Apart from and industrious gentle are ure a fields It is a race ten tending their tribal cr crime rue to bruise a flower or kill killa killu a u butterfly according to nu nn explorer writing in the London Mull Mall Impenetrable Im Im- surrounded by Naga uga villages penetrable barricades of thorn and windIng wind wind- cactus and entered through through- a n lug Ing tunnel the floor of oC which wh h bristles with poisonous snakes sc set to kill Im unwary unwary un un- wary and fin unwanted strangers are arc joined to each ench other by hy groves JIo of ot boles sacred trees Huge gnarled tower lower to a n roof of branches K so dense with leaf that lint not a gleam of If sunshine penetrates to the gloom bloom below In i sinister rows along these groves gro stand with totem poles garishly daubed and hideously curved caned A human skull Is impaled Impale on the top tOil of each pole return with hunters head l lien the their victims a n. dance dace tl is held Tile The meal meal an mid and captives CS arc nrc given a good dressed c in the tile b bet best t clothes cloth s the tle village can provIde Before their heeds heads hands s and feet ar are cut ut off the villagers apologize e for tor an any Incon this rite may cause to the and point out that they a will be honorably hon s sacrificed to t the har liar hari i skulls will grace vest gods that their thell the sacred grove grove that their ghosts will I share with Willi the yI village ng arm army of other f victims victims' spooks spools the honor honored cl job of scaring off the tile horde of and demons d dm de de- mons m ns which 1 lurk Irk around the villages Intent fco so the sa say on bringing I pla plague ue and famine to the tribe Follows an 11 org orgy of ot sacrifice opium eating and toddy drinking the vic vic- I f. f hands and feet rire are paraded I Ion on poles pole through the opium and paddy fields as harvest har t thanksgiving thanks I I tokens With solemn rites the skulls of i ghostly are are pt to the thc grim grin I. I s. s t- t tto be those of But the skulls must 1 strangers the believing that If It the heads came from the shoulders of at I of the vic victims 1 Naga tribesmen the ghosts I time tims Instead of ot sta staying i lg in the grave b by their thelt skulls would hu hunt t the villagers villagers vil vil- I lagers and amI wreak more spiteful damage damage dama dam dam- a age h e than the ver very and demons whIch the they t should hould drive awa away I |