When the Carriers are severely sick they often think that they shall not recover unless they divulge to a priest or magician every crime which they may have committed, which has hitherto been kept secret. In such a case they will make a full confession, and then they expect that their lives will be spared for a time longer. But should they keep back a single crime, they as fully believe that they shall suffer almost instant death."2

2Harmon, D.W.n/an/an/an/a, in Morse, J., , 345.