CHAPTER X.
THE NATIVE PRIESTHOOD.
Their titles .-- Practitioners of the healing art by supernatural means .-- Their power derived from natural magic and the exercise of the clairvoyant and mesmeric faculties .-- Examples .-- Epidemic hysteria .-- Their social position .-- Their duties as religious functionaries .-- Terms of admission to the Priesthood .-- Inner organization in various nations .-- Their esoteric language and secret societies 263.