"BEWITCHED."
In conversation with, a press-man today, Major €lark-Wnlker, a, wellknown authority upon iVative affairs, expltaoned "niakntu" as the Maori term for hypnotism, the "evileye," or the possession of will-power by one individual to work HI upon asn'ofher. The power, he siaid, must not be confused with that of the Tohunga, jjviho was practically a medical man. Thfc *aaai possessing , the power oi "nuikutu" was more in the supernatural realm. There were, Kliid the major, other iraftives who had -the power, or were alleg-ed to possess it, of tig'htiiug- tand counter-acting , the "makutu." Strange to say, in re counting- some early, experiences of natives possessing , the power of "makutu," the ajvajor described them as being , particularly ugly, and tJie report to-day touches upon the same feature.
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Northern Advocate, 18 August 1919, Page 5
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