Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beast." said the local court in the dispassionate tones of bewigged British justice, "appears to be a human being who has been brought up to kill on the orders of those in charge of him, and to kill with bestial ferocity. While employed in its inhuman task, the creature disguises itself in the skin of a lion, or partly in lion skins and partly in baboon skins...
Such bizarre beasts-human beings usually hopped up with hashish and kept in captivity by local experts in black magic -are no strangers to the orderly process of British justice in Africa. In much of Africa the trained, crazed killers masquerade as leopards, perform their dark deeds in leopard fashion by pouncing on the backs of unsuspecting victims from the low-hanging branches of forest trees, slashing their backs and necks with razor-sharp knives fitted to their fingers like claws. In Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins...
Like a Dog. Except for a brief outbreak in 1946, when 103 cases of leonine murder were reported, Tanganyika's lion-men were relatively passive until late last year when a nve-year-old girl was dragged into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer...
...necessary repairs is considered a sacrilege. With his job rendered a sinecure by this taboo, the mosque's slovenly caretaker, Pak Murah, devoted himself to a more personal responsibility: how to marry off his none-too-attractive daughter. Three years ago when a young member of the local Communist Party made tentative matrimonial advances. Potential Father-in-Law Murah unhesitatingly tossed aside all his religious scruples to promote the match. He joined the party himself and, in utter defiance of Moslem law, allowed his new pagan comrades to build three small houses and a coffee shop for their...
...when Tomiko took her place in the busy waiting room. Within 15 minutes she was explaining to a doctor that she would like a double eyelid operation. Examination showed no reason why the girl should not have the operation (technically, blepha-roplasty). A nurse rubbed a local anesthetic ointment onto her eyelids. By 10:45 she was in the operating room...