Show USE VICTIMS VICTIMS' HEADS TO SCALP SPOOKS Murder and Sacrifice Religious Re Rc- Rite Rife in Burma e eThe The head hunting ragas live In Inthe inthe the mountain fastnesses of Upper Burma Bur nm ma rua Apart Allart front from head the ragas l are aie n a gentle and industrious race tending their fields It Is a n ii l 1 H to b hI u I n ll o n or kill LA mn A u Ul U. m U a U II J VI v. a 8 butterfly according to an explorer writing in the Lon London on Mall Mail n l Naga n villages t s surrounded by Impenetrable Impenetrable Im- Im penetrable barricades es of ot thorn and cactus and entered through a windIng winding winding wind- wind Ing tunnel the floor of which bristles with poisonous snakes set to kill unwary unwary unwary un un- wary and unwanted strangers are Joined to each other uther by groves gloves of ot sacred trees tree huge gnarled boles tower to to a n roof of branches so dense with leaf leat that not a n gleam of ot sunshine penetrates to the gloom below In sinister d rows alon along these gro es stand totem poles garishly daubed with brilliant and hideously carved car L 1 L i. i human Ullman SKUll is impaled on on- the me lilt top lu i of or each pole When the hunters headhunters return with their victims a dance Is held The real and s 's are arc given rl a good dressed in the best clothes the village Hinge can can cau provide pro Before their head meads heads hands and find feet are cut off the villagers apologize for any Inconvenience this rite lite may cause to the victims I Urns and point out that they will be he honorably sacrificed to the har har- vest gods that their skulls will grace the sacred prove grove ro that their ghosts will share with the village army of other victims victims' spooks pooks the honored Job soh of scaring off the time hoide horde of and d demons demons de de- mons which lurk lurl around the time villages s Intent Intento so o the ns say on bringing plague and famine to the time tribe Follows an nn or orgy of or sacrifice opium eating and toddy drinking the vic Ie victims victims' tints tims' heads hands mind and feet an art paraded on poles through h the opium and paddy Herds fields as fiS harvest hanest thanksgiving tokens With solemn rites the skulls skull art are added to the grim brim rows of ghostly sentinels But the skulls must he be those of strangers 5 th the NIl ns belle believing that If IS the heads came fromn flom the shoulders shoulder of Nn Napa Naga a tribesmen the ghosts hosts of or tho the victims vie vie- tams tims Instead of staying In the grave by their skulls skull would woul hunt the tho villagers vil- vil In lagers ers and wreak more mOle spiteful dr dm age nse than the theer er very and der Ie which they should thrive drive away awn |