Most people, regardless of race or religion, from the time in which they live or the place where they live, believe that some members of the human race have a unique ability to bring harm to other members of the human community, either simply by force of their will or with the help of special magic items.
In a number of regions of our planet, for example in Australia, Haiti, Africa and some regions of Eastern Europe, this faith has survived to this day, and it is now as strong as tens and hundreds of years ago.
And although a considerable part of the enlightened people of Europe and America treat magic and witchcraft with obvious disdain, nevertheless, numerous eyewitness accounts make one believe that sometimes, indeed, absolutely healthy people suddenly show symptoms of an unknown disease, from which they soon die.
One of the most common methods of mystical murder practiced by the aborigines of Australia involves a charmed bone that is directed at a victim.
The first Europeans who began to explore this continent were amazed at how quickly a person died after this magical ritual performed by local sorcerers called mulungawa.
This kind of execution on the Australian continent has existed for more than one century, but it was especially widespread in the past. True, it is sometimes used nowadays.
Usually this ritual object of killing, called "kundela", is made from the thigh bones of large lizards, kangaroos or emus. However, they are sometimes carved from wood. Usually the magic bone is small in size - from 20 to 30 centimeters in length. One end is pointed, and the other is very smoothly scraped. In addition, this killer bone is calcined over a charcoal fire for some time. Then its blunt end is wrapped in human hair and charged with the psychic energy of the Mulungava.
When this magical weapon, in the manufacture of which certain procedures were followed, is ready, it is handed over to the special executioners of the tribe, or kurdich. To look intimidating, they use human blood to glue kangaroo hair to their bodies.
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Then the hunt for the person sentenced to death begins. Kurdich are divided into groups, which bring together two or three executioners, and begin to search for the convict. And you can be sure that they will not miss the intended victim. When the doomed is overtaken, he is surrounded by a ring, the radius of which is about 5 meters.
After that, the murder itself begins, in fact. To do this, one of the Kurdichi holds the ritual bone so that the victim can see it. Directing, like a pistol, the murder weapon in the direction of the condemned, the executioner makes a sharp movement with his hand forward, while the rest of the kurditecha at this time utter magic spells. After the ritual is completed and the mental blow has reached the doomed, the executioners leave, realizing that the person will inevitably die very soon. Moreover, he is experiencing terrible torment.
The famous anthropologist Dr. Herbert Basedow, who devoted a lot of time to studying the life of the Aborigines, gave the following description of the death throes of a man who was overtaken by a magic bone: “His cheeks turned white and his eyes glazed, while his facial features were terribly distorted … When he tried to scream, the sound stuck in his throat, and everything that came out was foam on his lips. His body trembled, and the muscles involuntarily began to contract … Soon he fell to the ground and began to thrash in his death throes …"
Many psychologists who have studied the phenomenon of death by means of a bone are sure that there is nothing unusual and mysterious in this phenomenon. They believe that the death that follows the corresponding ritual is associated with excessive fear, which subsequently grips the victim. As a result of this mental reaction, a huge amount of adrenaline begins to be synthesized in a person, which in turn reduces the flow of blood to the muscles and reduces the gaps in small blood vessels. It is these psychosomatic processes that lead the victim to death.
Experts believe that when not only the victim herself, but also her fellow tribesmen believes in the inevitability of imminent death, the result of the kundela's action is, in general, predetermined. We can assume that in this case the mechanism of self-hypnosis operates. Many Western psychiatrists believe that the bone ritual is a psychosomatic suicide, not a murder with the help of mysterious psychic energy.
Moreover, several cases are known when, after demonstrating a magic bone to a person sentenced to death, he nevertheless remained alive. True, these facts can be considered only an exception to the rule and can be explained by some failures in the ritual or psychological weakness of the performers of the rite.
After all, many other examples, on the contrary, convincingly prove the presence of unusually powerful energy in the killer bones.
Back in 1919, Dr. Lambert, who participated in the work of an international group of doctors in the north of the Australian state of Queensland, established interesting facts, which he set out in his report. He noted that after the killing with a bone, no physical traces remain on the victim's body and the reasons provoking death, modern medicine cannot yet name.
At first, Lambert himself did not believe the circulating rumors about a mysterious method of murder at a distance, until in the fall of 1919 he encountered a similar incident. It was then that one of the aborigines named Rob, who was helping the doctors, suddenly fell ill from a curse sent to him by a local shaman called Heaven.
One day, the shaman got angry with Rob for some reason and sent a magic bone towards him. Shortly thereafter, Rob became seriously ill and began to rapidly lose strength.
A thorough physical examination by Lambert revealed no symptoms of any known disease. And Rob, nevertheless, continued to lose strength, and it was clearly noticeable even to a non-specialist that life was gradually leaving the aboriginal's body.
And then Lambert decided to take an extreme step: he came to the shaman and said that if Rob dies, his tribe will lose the help it received from the Rockefeller Foundation. Frightened by such a serious threat, Sky went with the doctor to Rob and imposed a new conspiracy on him, which freed him from the effects of the bone.
The very next day Rob completely recovered, and Lambert, amazed by what had happened, reconsider his views on "bone murder".
However, the intervention of white people did not always give positive results. So, in 1953, a suddenly ill aboriginal named Kinzhika, who had done something wrong before the tribe and for this was sentenced to murder with a bone, was taken by plane from the remote town of Arnhemland to the city of Darwin.
The examination showed that there were no even minor wounds on the native's body, that he was not poisoned, and he also did not show symptoms of any known disease. Nevertheless, his condition worsened by the hour, and the doctors quickly realized that he was dying.
Doctors considered the fear of a curse to be the only reason for his condition. However, in a modern hospital, no one could provide him with practical help. Psychiatrists, no matter how hard they tried, to convince the patient that he had much more than a few days to live, also failed. Kinzhika lived only three days after he was taken to the hospital and died in terrible agony. Thorough laboratory analysis of the tissues and organs of the deceased did not reveal any toxic substances in his body.
And in April 1956, again from a small village located on the island of Arnhemland, the native Leah was taken to the hospital in the city of Darwin with symptoms of an unknown disease. Thorough examinations of the patient, including fluoroscopy, blood and cerebrospinal fluid tests, showed that the patient's body was functioning within normal limits. And then the doctors suggested that the painful condition of the aborigine caused the effect of the magic bone.
According to the physician who performed the medical procedures, life gradually left Leah's body, like air from a ball punctured by a needle.
Psychiatrists applied hypnosis to a dying person, trying to convince him that he could bear the curse. However, nothing came of it. The patient continued to lose strength and was transferred to artificial respiration. But this time nothing happened either.
On the third day, Leah died in terrible agony. This was another tragic proof of the fact that the killer bones still have some kind of mystical power.
Bernatsky Anatoly