 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...diviners, cursers, and others, to the amount of some hundreds, have been compelled to drink the Tanghcna, within the last few months, and scores have perished, cut off in the midst.of health and vigour — their property confiscated, and their families reduced to ruin and misery... | |
 | 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...diviners, cursers, and others, to the amount of some hundreds, have been compelled to drink the Tanghena within the last few months, and scores have perished,...families reduced to ruin and misery ! Of one instance 1 have just heard the melancholy details from an eye-witness of the tragical scene. An aged widow,... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...one other melancholy instance of the gross superstition and ignorance of the natives of this island. An aged widow, upwards of seventy, attended the administration of the ordeal to five of her children in one day, all grown up and having families. The first was proved innocent, the aged... | |
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... the late enlightened and enterprising monarch of the country. His successor has, however, encouraged or permitted its revival, to a most lamentable extent — all her principal people, officers, diviners, cursers, and others, to the amount of some... 