The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-17

| tives) chanted a melancholy death
song, while the author of the troubl,
was found crouched in "a corner of tn,
room under a heap of shawls and rags
her eyes fixed sleepily upon her form
er lover. Mrs. Dominis found no diff
ficulty in expelling the jealous one
O o recovered his balance in a few
days and again cooked merrily on, al
Instance of recovery without medica
treatment, the irritating cause having
been removed.
/ hope to be pardoned if 1 ad and
anecdOte in further illustration of this
subject. The American consul at La
hama, on the island of Maui, and
Peter Treadway, sheriff of the island
had each body-servant; both the
servants were also policemen. An old
native, who lived league or more
from Lahaina, having been accused OF
some petty crime, the two policemen
were sent to arrest him. The culprit
| expressed his resignation, but, while
he recognized the propriety on their
part of obeying the Sheriff's order,
| he nevertheless assured the officials
| that 1t would be his duty to pray
them to death, and the policemen sat
! down in the hut before their prisoner.
| Their plight was soon known at La
! haina; the consul, highly valuing his
| servant, rode to the scene of counter
| Imprisonment, but the sheriff. who
was compelled to be present at court
session, stayed at home. The appear
ance of the policemen resembled that
already described in O-o's case; moth
ing had been eaten since the old man
began his invocations, but fear had
reduced the vital powers to degree
far lower than could have been ex-
pected from the fasting alone. The
onncnDG a rna6ilu nhaUnd IN ia mo
ter's order to go home, where he re-
covered; but native logic required the
sheriH's presence to command his
own man; the second policeman re-
manned behind and died.
If the victim were q chief, or a per-
son living Mt a distance, the effort was
to secure some tissue or secretion of
the body; here the saliva was of es-
peciaI service. Unimpeachable, in
truth, must be the character of the
royal spittoon bearer, to this day an
office of dignity i'll the farther isles of
the Pacific. All the "divinity that
doth hedge a king" must prove of
slight avail if speck or slightest trace
of the kingly spittle fall in possession
of any sorcerer ready for regicide. A
nail pairing, hair, or a tooth would
also be favored (as in clairvoyance)
by any business like kahuna who war
rants a result. The kahuna seems to
defy this material, which he then adj
dresses as an idol or fetish, praying it
to destroy the life of the patient. IS).
Ie. 1.-The material is finally buried, or
burned, at night, with lamentations. Al
exander.
1t is obvious that the dread of death,
and the expectation of it, which seize
upon this race when approached by
anaana, chiefly explain its uncanny
power; yet, in certain instances, pos
sibly such as that of Madam Dominis'
cook, we may summon modern sci
ence and dignity our subject by con-
sidering it a phase of hypnotic sug-
gestion. The sole suggestion" is
we are only justified in recording a
few we'll described cases as possible |
of the power Oh a hyp- |
motto will.
But the most recent triumph of |
anaana has not been death in copore, |
mere loss of the life of the body. |
accounts show that it |
is to her fear of the deadly prayer
that Liliuokalani owes the loss of her
right tn rule her little kingdom, Ha-
waii nei. Letters from informed
sources represent the queen to have
been long In kahuna-tOils.
"The queen is acting under the sug-
gestions of the kahunas; witch wom-
an, Pulolo of Lanai, has announced
herself a goddess, threatening the
queen at behest of the deities, in case
she fails to restore the ancient privi-
IegeS of the sOrcerers, even to re-eS-
of the rites of heathen-
iom an repossessiOn of lands" Ito be
taken back from the foreign residents;
clearly conspiracy of kahuna with
n Oh,
he queen, fails i'll all this, vengeance
will follow promptly, and she will be
buried alive. with anaana "19). Liliu-
,kalaui, as is well known, has vacil
ated pitifully between good and evil
,Ounsels. 1t IS reported on creditabie
authority, that sacrifices were offered
N the ancient way, and by the kahu-
las, in the palace premises; and yet,
leXt day, we find her calling in the
native Protestant clergy, for their
prayers to Jehovah, and again she eX-
lesire to do Alright, (20), finally, how
yer, yielding GLADLY to the bladder
nd.n
10. From letter written about January
4. Another letter says: "a native, adj
ressirg the mob urged the people to seize
nd bury her, the kahunas assisting"
20. THE queen reasoned with Parker,
eT prime munster, VINO opposed ner con-
uct. She seemed beside herself with ter
Or concerning the aumakuas, who are
lreatening to bury her.-Letter from Ho-
olulu.
Incredible it all appears. But there
) "an especial anaana" for this fami-
7 CD. L"leiohoku, brother and heir
pparent of Kalakaua, is known to
ave been prayed to death.
81. IAN especial anaana" is an express
ION in native use, e. l., the family is es-
ecialiy superstitious and devoted to its
wn destruction. Liiuokalani's ancestor,
,aumauili, the last king of Kauai, was
lbdued by Kamehameha I.-See Fornan-
er's Polynesian Races.
The writer we'll remembers Like l
Ike, (22), bright and charming prin- /
ess, well educated, and speaking !
'rench and English. An eruption of
he volcano Kilauea had persisted
early nine months, when the akuas !
that a royal victim must
e sacrificed to stay the progress of l
ne advancing lava. Likelike imme-
.ately offered herself as q sacrifice
,r her people. She slowly sank, in :
Dite af medical treatment, which her !
usband insisted on, and died in Feb
Iary, 1887. Kalakaua, the late king,
;caped all possible attacks from ana
ma by his concessions; IN fact, his Z
areer proved so agreeable to the ka-
unas that he was deified and wor-