Word: slaked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maddened, god-maddened, drunken, whirled and danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat, at the sacrificial altar...
...with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father under the old rooftree, moving about...