A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Note 312 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 4)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

This passage fixes the Hindu origin of running amok, which from this seems to have been connected with the worship of Shiva or Bhowani. Now it would be difficult to get any other explanation than that of adet, custom.

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