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In the Malay Peninsula, North Africa, Indonesia, and India, as well as elsewhere, there are individual persons and whole groups who exhibit, for religious or financial reasons, unpleasant or even bestial practices which seem magical. Through drum-beatings, frenzied dances, whirlings on their own axis, convulsive floor-rollings, and half-trances, they enter a condition of bodily immunity. This includes holding red-hot coals, cutting their arms and slashing their chests with knives. It is evil.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 71