Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-13

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~ Shanch by its Indian Just a sip-and a
diluted at thato the nky black juice the Shanch
shrub puts wings any partaker.
seems o the primitive Jivaro Indians living in
the wds Ecuador They often take flying
drug kind of "rln-ott powder" although really
lqud-when they escape a little while from
their women-fok, work just the humdrum routine
gvgs tribe it too as an aid TO
foreteng the future and impress of the
lights who may not have the take swg Of the
potent poison
the imbiber absorbed even a small snort
of the powerful narcotic he Is In the Land OF Nod with
return ticket to the waking state for several hours
Immediately himself soaring off into space on
batke He visits distant villages without the slight
est effort listens in palavers
he them while he often IS priv
iegfd he believes TO view the future with such clarity that
when ne returns he predict everything
to whether not the daughter Chief
going to have twins And SO in the Jvaro country
lives lived according poison-the in
fluence it has sleeping mind.
But not long something happened Ecuadorian
junges that threatened shake the tribal
prophets.
Primitive began to suspect that there might be
little witchcraft in the woodpte when old Brujo-
medicine man went on periodical Shanch sprees and
only disaGrceable things happening people he didn't like
The flying fortune brew seemed bring proph-
prosperity for his friends and dire want for other
members OF the tribe He misfortunes for
rival Bos and crop failures unfrendy tribesmeu
climax came when he visioned with elaborate detail the
funeral Of the chiefs tribe
tain still very much alive And the things pre-
dctcd by the Shanchi dreams the old
This was too much Jivaro men and women began 10
think about "hexcs Was their doctor in cahoots with
evil spirits and did he kind evil ink
all his wicked prophecies true? The superstiiious
trbesmen hesitated TO XIII anyone with much influence
They feared perhaps that his spirit would continue fly
trouble than ever Old BrIio
still today but he tells anyone dream
travels He doesn't dare
If these strange accomplishments brought on by drink
ing the flying real instead OF Authorizations
doped mind Shanchi might turn world
beating war weapon everyone looking for Spies could
quaff small potion fly silently through the and in
few seconds be listening to important military secrets in
the enemy camp.
But even If they figured a way % 10 It Shanch prob
ably never be warfare by Jvaros These
tbesmen fight their enemies with poison any kind
And anyone who you forget about and the
poisoned darts" is wrong.
Curare or poison similar to it. is mixed with
great care by natives they use II only TO kill
game for eed-Tey cage several Of the most
deadly OF the jungle the Corals Lance
and the Bushmaster These they half
plentiful Then taking much dccaycd liver
huge tapr they induce the hungry snakes strike
their venomfed fangs Then this vcnomfllcd liver and
the juice the deadly Nightshade (which Of
Curare) mixed a great gourd
Each Indian gets his allotment of poison which he
ries a smaller gord attached TO his He
that it quick death should he get any this
his veins and he won't use any of IL his fellow
He fights them in ethical If somewhat old
fashioned manner-with a lance
News Of the strange Jvaro Indians their flying-dream
drug the ethics their Mr. J. NJ
Sheppard Director Of the Pan-Amercan Society Trop-
Research casea 49, quito Ecuador who respon-
sibe each month for the publication Of small magazine
called Exploration Scientific Research" In this
publication many interesting about South America
appear and each issue is accompanied by tiny parcel
Of South American seeds the subscriber try
garden.
strange plants are plentiful in Ecuador the country
which has valleys of perpetual Summer paeaus Of
tinuois Sprngttmc mountain peaks of eternal
bound Winter.
Anyone interested in the work Of the Tan-American
Society OF Tropical Research investigating Ecuador
much o which Wilderness become member OF
the Society for yearly fec of S. This includes seeds and
magazine.