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Clark, Fay Marvin – Into the Light - Their rain-making ceremony appears to work
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Into the Light – Fay Marvin Clark
The aborigines are firm believers in the spirit world, and they are also adept in controlling that realm to an amazing degree. This is especially evident in their ability to produce rain when they need it.
Their rain-making ceremony appears to work. The normal season for an occasional rain is between November and the latter part of March. Yet within the five-day period after the rain ceremony it will usually rain even in the driest part of the year.
Though the desert does not yield in abundance, the people do not suffer from deficiency diseases until they attach themselves to our civilization, to be fed on white flour, tea, sugar and little else.