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Title: The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Watson, Charles R. (Charles Roger), 1873-1948
Subjects: United Presbyterian Church of North America Missions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., The Board of the foreign missions of the United Presbyterian church of North America
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tering charms. Sick people ap-ply to him with the present of a sheep or goat,or even an ox; the animal is killed, and the con-tents of its stomach are laid on a sick personsbody; or the skin of the animal is cut into stripsand these are fastened below the knee of the pa-tient. This is also applied as a protection againstdangers on a journey. When in the dry seasonthe cattle are brought across the river, the sor-cerer has to prepare charms to protect them frombeing seized by crocodiles. Besides this, he isable to perform miracles, to kill a man by witch-craft, to prevent rain, and to cause the cattle to bebarren. Folklore: Professor Westermann has rendereda service of inestimable value in bringing to-gether a large number of stories representingwhat may be called the oral literature, history,ritual, songs, proverbs of the Shilluks. There isa superficial tendency to depreciate the intellec-tual or religious life of peoples that have no writ-ten language, but the material which Professor
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o THB PEOPLE 125 Westermann has brought together makes an ar-ray of interesting oral records that forbid an at-titude of contempt for even the pagan Shilluk.1 Their Country: It is important to note that theShilluks along the Sobat form a very small partof the Shilluk people. They inhabit chiefly theland on the west bank of the Nile from Kaka inthe north to Lake No in the south. They are theonly people in the Sudan who acknowledge onehead as immediate ruler. The Dinkas2 The Dinkas along -the Sobat are shy and sus-picious, but amenable to kindness and trade. Theyhave been worsted in the frequent forays of the Tne Dinkas.more powerful Nuers into their district. Theycomplain bitterly of the spoliation of their herdsby the Nuers, and state that many of their chil-dren now growing into manhood as Nuers, weretorn from them in the constant raids of the Nuertribe. The Dinkas, in spite of this alleged op-pression, own large numbers of sheep, goats, andcattle. The Dinkas on the Sobat are far mor

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