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...over the country (after which they will, of course, revoke the autonomy). Though their leaders are mostly dedicated Communists, the Pathet Lao have generally avoided terror tactics, and even share the general Laotian proclivity for rice-wine bouts and fertility festivals. They have many friends among the peasants and tribesmen, who feed them and keep them warned about military movements. Well trained and armed by North Viet Nam, the Pathet Lao usually travel in bands of five or six and try to avoid combat. On their occasional raids, they are helped by North Vietnamese cadres...
...Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen beat the dying with a rope and urge them to get on with...
When a king dies, the Buganda of Uganda raditionally slaughter all his wives-along with hundreds of ordinary tribesmen-to keep the old boy company. Poles abstain from sewing, for fear of pricking the soul of the departed. Many Jews, after the death of a close relative, abstain from sexual intercourse for seven days...
...parts of Sumatra, bones are dug up and given an annual airing. In Rumania, bones are sometimes dug up after three, five or seven years, taken to church, blessed, and reburied with full rites. And among the Azande, a Congo tribe, graves are opened for less innocent purposes. Tribesmen are apparently subject to dreams in which the dead demand a human sacrifice, and when the tribal oracle approves such a dream, a victim is found, his legs are broken, and he is buried alive...
India's newspapers grumbled at this "blot upon our escutcheon," and demanded "a clean and speedy sweep of this evil" from Indian soil. It may not be easy: most slave-owning NEFA tribesmen firmly believe that, no matter how wicked a man may be, his riches will accompany him from this life to the next. Thus, if he owns slaves in this world, he will have slaves to attend him in heaven...