These Charming People
D'!VINERS and fortune tellers are very popular, and there are charms for everything. A young man will buy a charm to enable him to steal a young wife from her husband. The husband will buy a charm to protect him from the attentions of the
young r man. The two most popular sports of Madagascar are wife stealing and cattle lifting, You can also buy charms to protect you if you want to commit a murder, but these are very expensive and take a long
time to prepare. You can charm crocodiles from biting you. Every river and pool in Madagascar is full of crocodiles, and if you enter the water for anything, you must say, "O dear, dear, honourable crocodile!" Then perhaps the crocodile will not bite your leg off.- (" Madagascar: The Third Largest Island." National Service Talks, May 18.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 3
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144These Charming People New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 3
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