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August 17, 2005

Oh Ignorance, Don't Fail Me Now

an incantation to be sung in a sobbing whispered tone every night by a husband in order to procure a bearable married life. This piece comes from the oral poetries of the Weewankin tribe of Western Canada. It was first dictated in 1878 by A-A-Vo who heard his father, De-Vo lamenting before bed. Some tribe elders insist that the incantation was a spell originally intended to give jaundice to enemy cattle.
-- Ric Royer

Posted by Rock Heals at August 17, 2005 12:45 AM