Author: Reverend Edmund Lassington

Published: Whitby Press, 1847.

Key passages:

A. The Kikuyu told me a strange tale concerning the “Mountain of the Black Wind”.  This desolate peak is supposed to be inhabited by a “terrible god”, who unleashes a black wind which brings pestilence, famine, and death in its wake.  The face of this “god” is said to be depicted as a great bloody tongue.
    This “god” is served by a priesthood known as the “Servants of the Bloody  Tongue”.  They propitiate their “god” through abominable rites, which supposedly include human sacrifice, the victims having been abducted from surrounding villages.  The leader of these miscreants is said to be a woman, chosen at birth and tutored in the practice of foul arts and magicks by the “god”.
    The Kikuyu were unwilling to take me to the Mountain of the Black Wind, but they told me that it lies north of the great mountain and east of a large lake.  I have no doubt that someday a missionary from the Church will bring enlightenment to that tormented land.
 

B. Description of a “spell” cast by a Nandi “magician” to create servants from the dead.

C. Description of a “spell” cast by a Kikuyu “magician” to command a lion to leave a village in peace.

D. Description of a “spell” cast by a Kikuyu “magician” to cast out devils.

E. Description of a “spell” cast by a Nandi “magician” named Colubra to transform his arms into venomous serpents.