kindram

Updated: July 15, 2025

For everything new is apt to excite the awe and dread of the savage. "It is a curious superstition," says a pioneer in Borneo, "this of the Dusuns, to attribute anything whether good or bad, lucky or unlucky that happens to them to something novel which has arrived in their country. For instance, my living in Kindram has caused the intensely hot weather we have experienced of late."

Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough