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was employed to ascertain the length of life. If the unclear was to attain old age, a figure would be seen in it with grey hair and a long white beard. There was one other occasion on which the talisman was interrogated, differing from all the rest; this was in cases where men were jealous of their wives. But it was seldom sought in such instances, until they had tried by themselves a different mode of conjuring for information without declaring their uneasiness even to the priest. The experiment which was made in the first instance, and privately, by the jealous, was as follows: he took two white beads, and blacked one of them; making the white one a symbol of innocence; the back, of guilt. The white bead for innocence was then placed between the thumb and finger of his right hand. Between the thumb and finger of the left hand, he placed the black bead for guilt. Both hands were then put on the ground. "Has [such a man] of [such a] clan".- (naming both)- "dishonored me?"- he asked,- at the same time uplifiting his hands as unclear as possible over his head. So long as both beads remained unmoved, he continued the questions from man to man and clan to