Note 37 — PREFACE. (continued 5)
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An investigator (Rev. Jas. Bicknell) of the practice of sorcery among Hawaiians, as revived about 1880, termed the hoonohonoho priests, according to the views of their dupes “dispensatories of spirits of deceased persons.” The work of the sending or messenger priest he classed “witchcraft.” ↑