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>"Amarar called his soothsayer, and required him to name a propitious moment for the sally. The oracle retired to his den, and, after suitable ineantations, declared that the effort should be made as soon as the hands of Amarar were stained in the blood of his own son. It is said that the prophet intended the vietim to be a youthful son of Amarar, who had joined his mother's family, and was then distant; but the impatient and superstitious savage, seeing a child of his own, two years old, at hand, when the oracle announced the decree, snatched the infant from his mother's arms, threw it into a rice mortar, and, with a pestle, mashed it to death. The sacrifice over, a sortie was ordered. The infuriate and starv- ing savages, roused by the oracle and inflamed by the bloody seene, rushed forth tumultuously. Amarar, armed with the pestle, still warm and reeking with his infant's blood, was fore- most in the onset. The besiegers gave way and fled; the town was re-provisioned; the fortifieations of the enemy demolished; and the soothsayer rewarded with a slave for his barbarous pre- diction!

>At another time, Amarar was on the point of attacking a strongly fortified town, when doubts were intimated of success. Again the wizard was consulted, when the mysterious oracle de- clared that the chief "could not conquer till he returned once more to his mother's womb!" That night Amara committed the blackest of incests; but his party was repulsed, and the false prophet stoned to death."- Canot's Twenty Years of an African Slavery, page 333.

Well that's a story, lol jesus