. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . Natuies Mirror [Photo by Traf 456. Rain doctor keeping off lightning 4fi Any man, even though Prom a foreign country, who professed be ablirain was weloomed in Zululand ; he wir, permitted by the king to praei ;m •and i raap the benefil of his good worl Hi followed I tiling risk tO his own hie I he USUal Pee Was One or iiioi the rain was to be made to desoend. The Zulu kings i i Swaziland foi the kin of thai oountry were sup] i to be intimately acquainted wilneoi ir brii it on Not. only, howi have Native, the superstition tin pe


. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . Natuies Mirror [Photo by Traf 456. Rain doctor keeping off lightning 4fi Any man, even though Prom a foreign country, who professed be ablirain was weloomed in Zululand ; he wir, permitted by the king to praei ;m •and i raap the benefil of his good worl Hi followed I tiling risk tO his own hie I he USUal Pee Was One or iiioi the rain was to be made to desoend. The Zulu kings i i Swaziland foi the kin of thai oountry were sup] i to be intimately acquainted wilneoi ir brii it on Not. only, howi have Native, the superstition tin pei Pall, but the contrary idea as well, viz., thai thi indivi Prom Pallinj rhe beliel thai rain can be kepi off by hui ncy i ^ng ai widely prevalent throughoul both Zululand and Natal. e usual expedient nfj lightning Prom striking and thunder Prom crashing over a kraal is, under the directionof some qualified rain-doctor, to hammer into the ground in the vicinity of th< nail smeared over beforehand with a black medical preparation. These pegs remain inthroughout the season, but the great


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