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Updated: May 27, 2025
He strove against the cruel and barbarous customs of the natives and their dark superstitions, and hoped in time to be able to train pupils who would be sent out to preach all over the country. In one tribe the medicine-men were also rainmakers.
This word, with the spiritual idea corresponding to it, Moffat found to have vanished from the language of the present generation, although here and there he could meet with an old man, scarcely one or two in a thousand, who remembered in his youth to have heard speak of 'Morimo'; and this word, once so deeply significant, only survived now in the spells and charms of the so- called rainmakers and sorcerers, who misused it to designate a fabulous ghost, of whom they told the absurdest and most contradictory things.
Livingstone pointed out to the people of the tribe that the rainmakers' jugglery was only a fraud and of no use, but offered, if they liked, himself to procure water for the irrigation of their fields, not by witchcraft but by conducting it along a canal from the neighbouring river.
This bird haunts burial grounds, and if in a drought any one can run it down and make it cry out, rain will fall. During a drought one of these birds came into my garden, hearing which the blacks said rain would come soon, and it did. In another drought when the rainmakers had failed, some of the old blacks saw a rain-bird and hunted it, but could not get it to call out.
"It's too bad," began Haynes. "Of course it is," nodded Holmes. "Prescott has very little chance of remaining in the corps, I suppose?" "The surgeons don't quite say that," rejoined Greg. "They seem to believe that Prescott has an excellent chance," insisted Greg. "No bones broken?" "Not a one." "What is the trouble, then?" "The rainmakers can't say exactly. They're waiting and watching." "Humph!
That sounds pretty bad for their patient." "They say that if Prescott is able to walk soon, then his return to duty ought to be rather speedy." "I'd like to believe the rainmakers," grunted Haynes. "Would you?" inquired Greg very coolly. "Of course." "What is your particular interest in my roommate?" demanded Cadet Holmes. He looked straight into the other's eyes.
Soldiers there have been who have shown "cold feet" in their first battle or two, and yet have been among the best of soldiers later on. But the cold-foot is a rarity, anyway, among the regulars. "Hello," broke in Kelly, peering out through the rain, "there goes some good fellow to the rainmakers." Many of the other soldiers looked.
The politician, particularly in the East, was quite content to dismiss the Populists as "born-tired theorists," "quacks," "a clamoring brood of political rainmakers," and "stump electricians," but the student of politics and history must appraise the movement less provincially and with more information. It was in the nature of things that the Populist movement should come out of the West.
Lastly, amongst the natives about, and some of the Boers too, I am sorry to say, she had the reputation of being the best of rainmakers, and many were the head of cattle that she earned by prophesying the break-up of a drought, or the end of continual rains.
The Caffres in Southern Africa have a kind of humbug somewhat like the Obi-men, who are known as rainmakers. These gentlemen furnish what blessing and cursing may be required for other purposes; but as that country is liable to tremendous droughts, their best business is to make rain.
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