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IN NEW GUINEA, A COMMON RITUAL IS THE CANNIBALISTIC
PRACTICE OF EATING RAW HUMAN BRAINS AS A SYMBOL OF VICTORY
OVER AN OPPONENT. THIS SOMETIMES RESULTS IN "LAUGHING
SICKNESS", WHICH IS 100% FATAL.

Submitter comment: WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AIDS, AND I SAID THAT I WONDERED HOW
MANY 100% FATAL DISEASES THERE WERE. PRESTON TOLD ME THIS
STORY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness

Date learned: 00-00-1985

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