MAORI BLACK MAGIC
Psychiatrist’s Interest
Maori black magic (makutu) is being investigated by an Auckland psychiatrist, Dr. L. G. Gluckman. In the "New Zealand Medical Journal.” he asks for information from doctors “who have had personal experience of cases in which the patient or his relatives feel bewitching, cursing, or makutu is a factor.
“In a predominantly psychiatric experience, I have been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to study certain patients of Maori descent who considered makutu a factor in their physical or mental symptoms." Dr Gluckman says in his letter
“I gave a paper on some of my experiences at the recent British Medical Association conference in Auckland. I am now endeavouring to ascertain how commonly makutu is recognised by medical practitioners, and what competent observers feel about its Incidence, aetiology (origin), natural history, and management in modern New Zealand or within their professional memory.
“In the journals of Samuel Marsden can be found references to rnakutu, considered by Marsden as an example of Satanism. Since occasional reference
has been made to it tn the his oricai ethnographical. anthropotogie.l litera-
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 20
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183MAORI BLACK MAGIC Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 20
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