Curing illness (and the trance dance)

Curing illness (and the trance dance)

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

When people are ill, some of the people 'doctor' the afflicted person and stand and make various gestures. Other people sing (and do not make gestures). Other people beat the drum. Dreams put 'a thing' into a person and makes them unwell.

1) See also <i>Dreams</i>, 2) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-4

story

24 January 1880

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

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