The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

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~ mantle and cruel, comes from the
- Kewalo district.
In little cottage live a haole, his
native wife and sister -in-law. The pair
have not been married great while,
and previously the husband had had
many affaires de occur among the
towns dusky sisterhood.
When he finally married and settled
down he was apprised from time to
time by friends that his former sweet
hearts We're very jealous of his chosen
wife, and would spare no effort to
bring about separation by fair means
or foul. To this the haole paid little or
no attention, ascribing it to the idle
gossip of credulous natives.
About a month ago the girl went on
a visit to friends in the country. and
when she returned she told her hus-
band that she had visited a noted ka-
huna while away who told her that
she would have trouble with her hus-
band in months time, and become
seriously sick. She said that her nus
bands former loves had leagued
against her, and invoked the assistance
of a kahuna to make her sick. The
only antidote, she said, was white
rooster, containing not black feather,
and vhaif-glass of gin.
) The month passed away On the 26th
instant the sister-in-law came home
from an errand with the story that
some girls had told her that skahuna
business" was brewing to her sisters
detriment, and that she had been told
that three girls had paid 800 TO ka-
huna to bring about an estrangement
between her sister and her nusDand
When the wife heard this she I'M
plored her husband to buy a white
rooster, but this he was unable to do
on account of the difficulty IN finding
such a fowl.
That same evening she told her hus-
band that she felt very sorry Tor him,
as she felt that she was going to be
very sick.
The next night when the husband
came home he found his wife sick and
respondent. He tried to cheer her up,
but without avail. She who had for
merly been affectionate in the extreme,
now repulsed him roughly.
In short while she retired to her
bedroom and soon after returned to the
sitting room. Her face was drawn
and haggard, her eyes staring as if
transferred by fear in unseen presence.
Presently she walked to the door, gazed
out into the blackness for a moment,
and then covering her eyes rushed
shrieking into the bedroom.
Her husband strove to quiet her, but
she crouched in a corner of the room
trembling like a wild thing. In
minute or two she fell into an hysteric
of terror, endeavoring this time to hide
her eyes from what she said was a
face in the room.
Three minutes of quietness and then
a mad spasm wherein she would have
jumped headlong through the window
if not prevented in time by her hus-
band and sister-in-law. Normally, any
thing but a woman of strong physique,
it now took the united efforts of the
two to prevent her from harming her
self.
All this time she talked incoherently
of things which the two anxious
watchers knew naught of, and while
the fit was upon her failed to recognize
either of them.
Presently she calmed down a little
and asked her sister to fetch some salt
and water; to sprinkle the same over
the trio and pray as she directed. Her
requests We're carried out, and there
was no more trouble that night.
Yesterday morning the victim awoke
and complained of pains in her body,
occasioned doubtless by the struggles
of the previous evening. She was very
nervous, but when told of the events
of the previous evening, remembered
nothing.
Il knew I was going to be SICK" she
said, but if / had had a white rooster
| it could not have been. All is right
eow, however; the hakuna's efforts
Have been brought to naught."
The husband consulted a physician
yesterday who said that the trouble
was undoubtedly hysterical, and caus-
ed by prolonged brooding and worry
ing over a real or imaginary evil. He
| thought that the girl had undoubtedly
been "kahunaed," and expressed an
opinion that such thing might have
been fatal to a person of an extremely
sensitive nature.