Note 294 — LECTURE VI. The Lines of Development of Primitive Religions.

The amok of the Malays, the mali-mali of the Tagalese, etc., is a maniacal religious psychosis in which the subject will rush violently through a street, killing or wounding any one he meets. See Dr. Rasch’s discussion of it in Centralblatt für Anthropologie, vol. i., p. 54, who considers it a “suggestive influence.” Similar examples are common among American Indians.