Friday, March 17, 2006

Friday dinner party conversation stopper

We have two this week. First up, a Jivaro fertility conjuration from South America (cited in Canetti's Crowds and Power):
Hej, hej, hej!
Woman, hej!
Woman, hej!
Copulation, hej!
Copulation, hej!
May the tsantsa [shrunken head] grant copulation!
Mating, hej!
Coupling, hej!
Woman, hej!
Woman, hej!
May it be true, hej!

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