Some Obscurish facts
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Australian aboriginal witch doctors specialize in a form of murder neither medicine nor criminology can explain. They kill victims by pointing a human bone in their direction from a distance of 10-15 ft. The pointing--accompanied by a weird, malevolent chant--is invariably fatal. I watched a young Mailli tribesman from Arnhem Land die in the Darwin Hospital, despite the best medical care white doctors could give him. There was nothing physically wrong with him. He had not been poisoned or otherwise harmed. Yet from the moment he was 'pointed,' nothing could save him. He died before our eyes, in dreadful agony, apparently from the mere knowledge that he must die. The kundela--death bone--is used only on aborigines. We have no way of knowing whether it would work on a white victim.
Australian aboriginal witch doctors specialize in a form of murder neither medicine nor criminology can explain. They kill victims by pointing a human bone in their direction from a distance of 10-15 ft. The pointing--accompanied by a weird, malevolent chant--is invariably fatal. I watched a young Mailli tribesman from Arnhem Land die in the Darwin Hospital, despite the best medical care white doctors could give him. There was nothing physically wrong with him. He had not been poisoned or otherwise harmed. Yet from the moment he was 'pointed,' nothing could save him. He died before our eyes, in dreadful agony, apparently from the mere knowledge that he must die. The kundela--death bone--is used only on aborigines. We have no way of knowing whether it would work on a white victim.