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_ WARFARE =19 against any persons or villages he could, through performing the necessary clan ceremonies, involve them in ï¬Åghting (cf. Chapter XX). In addition to this there appears to have been a certain private war-making magic, for we are told that if a man chew a certain leaf and spit it out in the direction of the com- munity which he wishes to harm, muttering the while the spell : “ Nevurzi komb nimorot are ti X—" 1 this community will be drawn into a conflict. The idea behind the ritual of both the ofï¬Åcial village magician and the private practitioner seems to be that the magical acts either bring about insults or adulteries which will lead to trouble, or else that they make one of the parties involved imagine that they have been insulted or injured by the other, and therefore attack them. ORGANIZATION AND PREPARATION FOR WAR Very little indeed has been recorded of the preparations which are made for war expeditions, or of the way in which the ï¬Åghting forces are organized. Since the men of a single village are all members of the same clan, it is probable that anyone who has been injured by a person belonging to another clan could ask his fellow villagers to help in wreaking vengeance, but whether they would agree to do so or not, probably depends to a very great extent upon the social status of the aggrieved party and the seriousness of the injury which he has suffered. Thus in the instance quoted above, Vilamanggau was able to rouse all his villagers in his attack on Loorcmcw after the death of Atawo, but it is very questionable if he would have been able to do so had he not been a man who had attained to the title of mar uaal " a great ï¬Åghterâ€ù. Again the hostilities between Loorlangalat and Vindawu, of which an account is given below, would probably not have come to a head had not a man oi very high Nimangki rank been one of those whose wife had been seduced. It seems that normally the man who has asked his village- or clans-folk for their help, will act as their leader during the expedition, but any man who is termed may vaal is a potential war-leader. Such an one does not necessarily conï¬Åne himself to oonï¬Åicts in which his own clan is involved. He may be called 1 These words are in the dialect of Seniang; their meaning has not been recorded.—Cr H. W. _ L r .
