Show FEAR TABOO IS contagious so 80 eddystone Eddy atone no islanders ascribe their ills to t the he charm how cure Is made many facts with regard to the practice ot of leech leeche craft raft and sorcery tho the imposition and removal of taboo and the belief in the infliction and cure ot of disease by rites among the natives of melanesia were related recently by dr W 11 II R rivers in jhb second fitzpatrick lecture ou on tied medicine ala magic gle andRell glon at the royal college of physicians says the london times in eddystone islands where doctor rivers spent several months some years ago nearly every disease Is ascribed to tho the infraction of a taboo on the fruit of certain trees dally the betel vino vine tho the taboo as well as the sign by which it Is known being called kenjo when anyone suffers butters from epilepsy or other convulsive seizure which la Is recognized as kiren gge ho he and his friends consult one known to have tho power of imposing the kenjo enjo mr enago this man visits the patient and strokes him from the head bead downwards with tour four leaves called ayou some moss soot and scrape scrapings of wood uttering the form ulila stroke away stroke down nd away cease thou let the man mail live do not return they have given me a good ring the last clause ot of this formula and two in ili that used in removing the taboo refer to the fee I 1 the chief money of the island consist ing ine of arm rinaa |