Argonauts of the western Pacific; an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 · London, G. Routledge & Sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 496
cating some dried grass, with which the canoe is afterwardsbeaten, we see that, in the second case, the magic is utteredover a something, which has no intrinsic connection with thefinal object of the magic, that is, with the canoe. It is neitherto become a part of it, nor to be used as an implement… … A MAGICAL SPELL ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCY. The women are bent over a special garment to be worn by the pregnant woman.They almost touch it with their mouths so that it may be well pervaded with theirbreath which conveys the virtues of the spell. (See Div. IV.) PLATE LVIII
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