The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-28
DEADLY PRAYERS.
HYPNOTIC FASCINATION EXERCISED
BY HAWAIIAN WITCH WOMEN.

| With Living Burial.
| Liliuokalani, an untranslatable word
signifying one belonging to heaven and of
| chiefly r3nk, or Lydia, as she was famil-
| iarly called in childhood, was taught her
letters at the Young Chiefs school. She
was very amiable and rather backward
in strange yet not inexplicable contrast
with her conduct in after years
| Made queen, she rewarded by dismissal
every effort on the part of her counselors
60 uphold good faith and u wise and req.
soneble conduct of public affairs. In ono
| week Liliuokalani dissolved three cabinets
opposed to her.
| Opposed by her indignant subjects when
| false to her coronation oath. and attcmpt
| ing coup d'etat (the whites, her chosen
teachers and supporters, had, as property
| holders and voters, ut least equal rights
| with the natives). tho oX-queen, whenever
generously treated, was found secreting
arms, connecting rebellion and complying
with hHbustcring raid from the Pacific
! coast.
1t may not DO amiss, in an age ever
ready, for political reasons, to extol a lie,
and when certain sort of pocsy is discov
| cred in the maudlin tragedy of Liliuoka-
! TAM, to present the briefest possible analy
sis of belief and practice not popularity
known and creating an environment tcom-
! ing with disturbing factors for the cx-
! queen.
Lacking Serpents, tho fair islands of tho
Hawaiian group possess snake life, with
rattle (kakekc), hypnotic fascination, Sc
oreted poison, and the power of dealing
death, which may justly claim study from
the standpoint of psychology with u curl
Gus bearing upon the unwrttcn history of
Liliuokalani's alteration and fall
If we except tho atroCious details of child
murder. whore native father has been
known to break his childs back for the
sake of annoying tho mother. there is no
darker outgrOwth of savagcry than the
anaana. This power of praying any per
son to death even his chief or the king,
gives to the native kahuna or sorccrer an
influence far transccnding the force of
arms among all tho tribes of Polynesia
Tho board Of health of Honolulu seldom
fails TO make II monthly report of ten or
more deaths of the ordinary natives from
the deadly prayers. Death is almost Ger
tain To follow the Vaccinations of Il ka-
huna. unless the intervention Of "A knhuun
of greater age can be secured. The victim
sits quietly before his antagonist. takes no
food and but little drink. ana dies in a few
days.
All the divinity that doth hedge IA
king must prove of small avail if "a nail
DtAI4iEf a IiAI- VI Il -llt'h Vi Nit royal Sft-
Iva fall into the possession Of any sorcerer
ready for rcgicidc. The kahuna seems to
defy this material. which he addresses as
an idol or fetch, praying it 20 destroy the
life of the victim.
In many instances MI Bishop says,
death is duo TO supc"stitious belief in
u demon whom the native feels working in
his vitals and whom 1t is hopeless to re
sist.
y conspicuous triumph of the sorccrcrs
occurs in the career OF three members of
Liliuo5alani Immediate family and fin
ally in her loss of right to rule her little
kingdom of Hawaii Letters from reliable
sources in 1893 represent the queen to have
been long in kahuna tolls and vucillating
pitifully between good and evil counsels
Sacrifices were offered in the ancient way
and by tho kahunas, in the palace prem
Uses. Yet next day we find hor calling in
the Protestant clergy for their prayers TO
jehovah Once more she explained to IL
deputation Of ladies her desire To do right,
finally. however, yielding gladly to the
B Bladder end
Tho queen reasoned with Parker. her
prime minister. who opposed her conduct
She seemed beside herself with terror con
ceHAing the aumakaas, who are threaten
ing To bury her.
" Tho queen is acting under the sugges-
tiuns OF the kahunas. \ witch woman
PUlclc Of Lanai, has announced herself a
goddess, threatening the queen, at bchcst
of the dcitics, III case she fails to restore
the ancient privileges Of the sorccrers,
even to establishment Of the rites of
heathendom and repossession of lands, to
he taken back from tho foreigners.
Clearly conspiracy Of kahunas with ava
ricious politicians
IN g.. t,,. ell /
vengeance will follow promptly, and she
will lie buried alive. with anaana "
y native addressing the mob urged the
people to seize and bury her. the kakunas
assisting. Whcucvcr the snake life has
opportunity, ii becomes dangerous to all
who would avoid return to the anarchy
and license OF the native life. Pitied and
pardoncd again and again, Liliuokalani
returns to courses alike destructive to her
self and subjects.
Al the time ii seemed incredible yet the
history Of her brothers and sister point to
the especially Supcrstitious and Yielding
nature ofthis family. Lcleiohoku brother
and heir apparent of kalakaun, il known
To have been prayed to death. The writer
well remembers Likelikc, Il bright and
charming princess, well educated and
speaking French and English Anerup-
ton of the volcano kilauca had persisted
nearly nine months, when the akuas an
nounccd that u royal victim must be sacri-
feed TO stay the progress Of the advancing
lava. Likclikc Immediately offered herself
rs sacrifice for her people She slowly
sank, Ill spite of medical treatment, which
her husband insisted on, and died in Fob
ruary, 1881
Kalakaua, the late king, escaped ali pos
siblo attack from anaana 10y his conces-
sions. In fact, he was deiiied and wor-
SHIPPED rs IA god - few DAYS before his death.