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MAGIC of his typhoid and having his leg pulled about it by the other planters. He complained once more to the estate doctor and, this time, to put an end to the delusion, the planter was sent to Penang Government Hospital, where the C.M.O. pronounced "no typhoid”. Yet, shortly afterwards, the young planter died of this disease. I knew all parties but cannot recollect exactly how long the planter was subject to his delusion, certainly more than six months before he died of typhoid. He left over £4,000 sterling, so it was not money troubles that caused the delusion and so far as his work was concerned, he was on horseback or afoot all day going over the sugar-cane fields, as healthy a life as a man could desire. The district was healthy, coastal flat plains and in sugar-cane the planters are under the sun all day, no shade as in rubber. The sun keeps a man very fit-I know, for I have planted out here for nearly 40 years, am perfectly fit myself, not a grey hair on my head and no home leave since 1917; 60 years, but feel like 20.
The basic law underlying all magical work is that Energy Follows Thought. In studying the processes or rites used to effect a magical operation we find that the power behind these operations is always the same, imagination controlled
