Wedgwood 1934-35

Links

• Copy in JSTOR
• Copy in JSTOR
• 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1935.tb00153.x

References

Sections

• 5.5 Health and disease
  • Concept of illness
  • Spraying masticated substances on to affected part
• 6.7 The spirit world
  • Soul as life force
• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • Role of trance
  • Sorcery using leavings
• 6.11 Seasonal cycles and lunations
  • The Pleiades

Words

• Manam: mariaba person’s spirit
• Manam: nabʷa spell usually resulting in rapid death
• Manam: dimate induced sleep to enable soul of curer to travel to Land of the Dead to retrieve soul of ill person