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57. Notes on the Old Calabar District of Southern Nigeria.

the traditional methods of any one teacher (guru).The attribution of purely physical, as distinct from menLal, disease to an evil spirit's actual presence is not usual among the Malays of the Peninsula, and was in the present instance directly brought about by words uttered by a person believed to be in a state of supernatural excitement, for there was no indication that aniything supernatural was believed to be the matter with the child until these words were uttered.I should, perhaps, explain that the langsuir had 'no connection with the familiar, being regarded at Grit as a " jungle spirit"…