Such an episode took place as late as February 12, 1892, on the smaller island of Lanai. The kahuna anaana or sorcerer could be either male or female. His professional calling included murder, in which he was guided by a familiar demon. “He usually does his victims to death by secret administration of poison, or quite as commonly, perhaps, by some occult influence upon them, possibly of a hypnotic sort,” an editorial ran in the July issue of The Friend, a Protestant missionary journal founded in Honolulu in 1843. “He first establishes himself in business by killing one or more of his nearest relations. This creates for him a reputation of remorseless truculence, which makes him greatly feared, and ensures large emoluments. All these murders he professes to execute by means of his demon, often claiming to have produced deaths in which he really had no hand. Sometimes he overdoes the business, and has to fly before the wrath of the outraged people whom he has held in terror.
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