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...sooner had the Witch Doctor, or Unga, divined certain extraordinary qualities of Mrs. Garrett than she fell into a trance. The "healing stones" sacred to Papaleba were tossed into a fire, and Mrs. Garrett was ordered to fetch and lay them before the altar of Papaleba. She accomplished this feat without burning her flesh; and thus, as she says, she passed her "trial by fire." As illustration, Mista Shabine sang for the audience the introductory chant to Papaleba...
...Garrett soon returned to her home in New York, bringing with her the healing stones and an altar. For she had accepted not only the pleasures but the obligations consequent on being the chosen of Papaleba. Every day she placed flowers before the altar to keep the god happy. But something was wrong. Many mornings the flowers were strewn about her living room floor, and other such wild disorders occurred frequently...
...talked about the goodness of God, never His wrath. "Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?" He complained that there were too many flowers in the church: "When you smother the altar in flowers you take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with...
...centuries since, many another nubile Greek girl, along with her father, has complained of this state of things; in Greece an adequate dowry is a far more important prerequisite to marriage than a pretty face. In Salonika a weary housemaid recently made the trip to the altar after having scratched for seven long years to raise the $500 demanded as a marriage settlement. A shepherd from the slopes of Mt. Olympus turned his true love down cold when her father produced only $600 of a promised $800. Even in up-to-date Athens, where marriageable women far outnumber available...
...Babs is still billing herself as a princess, then maybe her 1951 Cuernavacan divorce from her fourth husband, Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, was no good − and Rubirosa 's marriage to Babs would thus be legally null. In that happy event, Rubirosa could immediately head for the altar with his great and good friend...