Incantator

We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpion has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you?

In the metamorphoses of the ancients, the wolf is conspicuous ; and that demons assume its shape, that sorcerers and incantators alternately pass from the human to the lupine form, is believed by the vulgar throughout Asia and Europe; slightly modified it is a common superstition in Abyssinia, and even among the Caffres.

It is obvious that there is a situation of rivalry, since two legs are competing for a road, but the victory of the incantator is ascertained by the fact that flies swarm the excreta.

Kitty's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator, full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings, for scalds and weather and animal magic.