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Show DISS NOTES By Leland Hunsaker j Monday, March 23, David Edward ' Starry presented a program of "West Indian Witchcraft" to the studentbody. With the aid of a j large map, Mr. Starry first gave us ; a brief, but concise, account of Jamaica's early history. He next I told us of the strange supersti- I tions connected with the burial of the dead. The grave diggers, usually usual-ly 6 in number dig the grave and every little while they have to , partake of rum, and when the l grave is finally dug everyone except ex-cept the dead man are in the grave. I He told us that ghosts cannot turn corners, and the best way to collect col-lect debts owed to the dead man is to stand his body up in the casket cas-ket and put it outside the door of i the debtor. He illustrated this part of the program with various types of drums from Jamaica and Haiti , drums that have actually been used in Voodo dances. Alton Cahoon, Ca-hoon, Collins Fullmer, Neil Hey-! Hey-! borne played the drums; Lila Mae Sampson tapped sticks together, I Joyce McClellen, Elaine Gardner, and Mildred Dutson shook "those rattles that make rhumba music" I in an orchestra like they have on Haiti. He displayed articles and ' wood carvings and told us of the practices of the Haitians that they have intermingled Christian- ity with their own religin and such a conglomeration has never before i been heard of. To close the program, pro-gram, he brought in a touch of his own Pennsylvania, reminding A-mericans A-mericans like us of some of the ABRACADABRA that lies in our , own "backyards", such as a cure for whooping cought: pass the inflicted in-flicted with whooping cough thru a blackberry bush three times, starting from the same place each time and do it the same way three . times or it will not be effective. |