The Paramas Sent Some Of Their War Boys To Be Ambushed
In The Intervening Country, The Imperi, But The Imperi Delivered
These War Boys To The Enemy.
In revenge, the Paramas sent the
Fetish Boofima into the Imperi country.
This Fetish had up to that
time been kept active and working by the sacrifice of goats, but the
medicine men of the Paramas who introduced it into the Imperi
country decreed at the same time that human sacrifices would be
required to keep it alive, thereby working their vengeance on the
Imperi by leading them to exterminate themselves in sacrifice to the
Fetish. The country for years has been terrorised by this secret
worship of Boofima and at one time the Imperi started the Tonga
dances, at which the medicine men pointed out the supposed
worshippers of Boofima - the so-called Human Leopards, because when
seizing their victims for sacrifice they covered themselves with
leopard skins, and imitating the roars of the leopard, they sprang
upon their victim, plunging at the same time two three-pronged forks
into each side of the throat. The Government some years ago forbade
the Tonga dances, and are now striving to suppress the human
leopards. There are also human alligators who, disguised as
alligators, swim in the creeks upon the canoes and carry off the
crew. Some of them have been brought for trial but no complete case
has been made out against them!" In comment upon this account,
which is evidently written by some one well versed in the affair, I
will only remark that sometimes, instead of the three-pronged forks,
there are fixed in the paws of the leopard skin sharp-pointed
cutting knives, the skin being made into a sort of glove into which
the hand of the human leopard fits.
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