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Show Still Fear Death Curie Though "amaama," or "praying to death," Is outlawed In Hawaii by an act which Is still on the statute books, this form of reprisal is far from actually ac-tually extinct, according to the well versed. Recently a modern "fortune teller" has revealed that she has frequent fre-quent visits from persons (usually Ha-wallans) Ha-wallans) who think that they are the targets for some enemy's "amaama" activities, and wish the fortune teller to come to their assistance. Throughout Through-out the South seas, natives in ancient days used various forms of "praying to death" or praying for illness, and often effectively. Whatever the physiological physi-ological explanation, it seems well established es-tablished that natives who found themselves them-selves the object of this activity by a; dreaded "kahuna" would often pine away and die. |