Here and there, however, something like it may be found amongst ourselves.

My friend Mr.L.P.Jacks, for instance, in his story-book, _Mad Shepherds_, has described a rustic of the north of England who belonged to this old-world order of great men.

For men of the type in question can be great, at any rate in low-level society.

The so-called medicine man is a leader, perhaps even the typical leader, of primitive society; and, just because he is, by reason of his calling, addicted to privacy and aloofness, he certainly tends to be more individual, more of a "character," than the general run of his fellows.
I shall slightly condense from Howitt's _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_ the man's own story of his experience of initiation.

Howitt says, by the way, "I feel strongly assured that the man believed that the events which he related were real, and that he had actually experienced them"; and then goes on to talk about "subjective realities." I myself offer no commentary.