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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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as they are. Inmaking it the moist corn is allowed tosprout, when it is ground and boiled,and the seed of a grass resemblingwheat is added as a ferment. Theliquor is put in large earthen jars, usedonly for this purpose, and is drunkwhen twenty-four hours old, or evensooner. The jars cannot hold it longer,as they are not verj^ strong, and so thepeople take the res2:)onsibility uponthemselves. A row of these jars, in-verted, is a common sight outside ofall Tarahumari houses or caves. TheIndians drink incredible quantities ofthis liquor, which is white in color andresembles beer, and is called teswainoby the Mexicans, who also sometimesmake it. It is very nourishing, andboth Indians and Mexicans refrainfrom food before drinking it, assertingthat the mixture will disagree Aviththem. This may be one reason fortheir constant intoxication. But theydrink it in such amazing quantitiesthat they are sure to be intoxicated,food or no food. At night they coverthe jars of teswaino with a sprig of a
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DRAWN BY V. PERARD. Sacrificing.—Page 440. 440 TARAHUMAR! DANCES AND PLANT-WORSHIP kind of artemisia, a plant used by themedicine-men for many j^urj^oses andexpected in this case to frighten awaythe eyil spirits who might want to spoilthe liquor. The next morning I went to see themanvifacture of another kind of liquorwhich, for certain ceremonies, seems tohe necessary and of sj^ecial yalue. Theheart of a small kind of agaye, thechaiwee, had been baked for two orthree days, and the sweet mass allowedto ferment. It was then squeezed in ablanket and the drippings caught in ajar. It is drunk on the same day andin yery small quantities, as it is yerysweet and yery intoxicating. As a prej^aration for the funeralfeast, a man went out in the afternoonand cut two branches which he tiedtogether in the sha2:>e of a cross. Thiswas raised at the spot where the dancewas to take place ; while a smallercross which liad been standing there,as the custom is, wastaken about fifty yardsfrom the hous

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