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Updated: June 12, 2025
"I will try," returned the Prince, "but the Queen is very angry just now!" When the Prince pleaded for the man's life Ranavalona asked of what he was accused. "Of praying to the Christians' God." "Does he admit the charge?" demanded the Queen sternly. "No I believe not." "Then, let the Tangena decide. It always speaks the truth.
It is easy to see how a rascal, if as credulous as rascals often are, would be so frightened that his mouth would be dry, and would thus betray his own peccadillo. Another Hindoo mode was, to give a certain quantity of poison in butter, and if it did no harm, to acquit. Here, the man who mixes the dose is evidently the important person. In Madagascar they give some tangena water.
Many pages would be required to give a full and particular account of all the Malagasy superstitions connected with the ordeal. Let it suffice to say, roughly, that previous to the poison being administered the accused person is obliged to swallow whole, or rather bolt, three pieces of the skin of a fowl, about the size of a dollar. Then the decoction of Tangena in rice-water is administered.
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