Note 231 — II. SUGGESTIONS AND PERVERSIONS OF THE RITE.
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Among the ancient Peruvians, there was said to be a class of devil-worshipers, known as canchus, or rumapmicuc, the members of which sucked the blood from sleeping youth, to their own nourishing and to the speedy dying away of the persons thus depleted. (See Arriaga’s Extirpacion de la Idolatria del Piru, p. 21 f.; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 48.). See, also, Ralston’s Russian Folk Tales, pp. 311-328.