Judge Bean
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Years ago I read about an African tribe whose belief system revolved around tree spirits and magical stones. The spirits would tell you whether you should dig under that tree to find one of the stones, which were boulders of tremendous "medicine," as American Indians would say.
Well, the shaman told one man and his friends to dig under a certain tree, and they dug and dug all morning and came up empty-handed. The friends did not give up, and dug into the afternoon, but the man just sat there disillusioned. Exhausted and dirty, he just said "There are no magic stones."
Years ago I read about an African tribe whose belief system revolved around tree spirits and magical stones. The spirits would tell you whether you should dig under that tree to find one of the stones, which were boulders of tremendous "medicine," as American Indians would say.
Well, the shaman told one man and his friends to dig under a certain tree, and they dug and dug all morning and came up empty-handed. The friends did not give up, and dug into the afternoon, but the man just sat there disillusioned. Exhausted and dirty, he just said "There are no magic stones."