praying-to-death

Updated: May 3, 2025

And she took jolly good care to let him know she had that bit of his hair. Then she tipped it off to him that she had buried it, and was deeply engaged each night in her offerings and incantations to Uli." "That was the regular praying-to-death?" I queried in the pause of Prince Akuli's lighting his cigarette. "Sure thing," he nodded. "And Ahuna fell for it.

Jack London - On the Makaloa Mat