trate on a living object, either animal or fowl. For instance, a Columbian wanting something alive went into his wife's chicken yard and knew the truth about a motherly old hen. Within a week's time she became so offensively roosterish the other biddies ganged up on her and chased her out of the yard. And there was the Peruvian who practiced on his neighbor's gelding. The horse unable to contact another waxed amorous over a male llama. His owner, ignorant of the cause and anxious to avoid complication should the animals get together, traded him for another horse.

The efficacy of the Amantus' mental treatment on men is best illustrated by the case of two clergymen. On sabbatical leave from the States they were in Cuzco during a conclave and one morning went into the Square and listened to them. As they were leaving they asked a young Inca why the Amantus selected the prayer in preferance to others they knew about. He said they didn't, it became a part of them without their knowing it, principally because it permitted them to be themselves despite criticism of others and social customs. He went on to explain that since no one knew the sex of the God of all life, then it could not be offensive to the God to give all your love and affection to one of your own sex: your nature, not men, being the judge. Altho the clergymen didn't known it until a week later, the Amantus the following morning knew the truth about them. Today both are employed in the Cerro de Pasco company and share an apartment in Lima. At the conclave in Cuzco they wear their hair in bangs with an all seeing eye over it.

In Lima you'll see women wearing costume jewelry of a cabbage design. If older they're in smartly tailored suits, oxfords and use no makeup, whereas the younger ones, but for

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