5. Mamlambo. This is another snake chiefly known by Zulus and used by them as a charm. If not properly used it causes sickness or death, and has come to be looked on as a possible cause of sickness in many cases. 6. Omitting to observe certain ceremonies or rites is supposed to cause umbrage to the spirits and thus, bring about illness. Thus if the finger of a new born infant is not cut, the infant will be sickly and die young. If “circumcision” in man or “Intonjane” in woman is omitted the Imishologu (spirits of the dead) are dissatisfied and disease or barren-results. 7. Etc. Certain superstitions are attached by the Kaffir to a number of things or practices; for example.—Heaps of stones, which they call “Isivivane,” a stone lifted from the path and placed on the branch of a tree; a heap of small dry sticks placed by the road-side; tying the long grass by the wayside into knots; chewing certain leaves, roots, or barks, of certain plants; or wearing these last; crossing certain streams, especially in the case of women or children; washing in or drinking of certain pools or streams; dogs howling at night; owls hooting as if from the top of cattle or hut etc. They also have superstitions about the bird “Broomvogel” or “Intsikizi” e.g.: it is terribly unlucky to kill one; about a cow or ox entering a hut or a calf lying down when its mother is being milked; about the killing of the Umntani­zulu or mantis, the insect called the “Hottentots God” by the Boers. And many other things or acts of like nature into the description of which it would be foreign to the present subject to enter. The following superstition and practice with reference to the dead existed in the early times, though it is seldom heard of now. When the head of a family died without saying where he was going e.g. suddenly; immediately after his expiring the sons or daughters were compelled to place a piece of old leather or some similar thing between his teeth or into his mouth to show that he had died unhappily, in consequence of being bewitched. This had the effect of bringing all his acquaintances under suspicion of having bewitched him and the general public were in great danger of being accused by the “Isanusi” of witchcraft. The death of such an one is at once reported at the “great place” and the chief despatches a number of men to the kraal to seize and confiscate all his property and cattle. The belief is that a person dying under these circumstances had gone to a place of punishment; but the Amaxosa have no name for it. They, have, however a name for a happy place although they cannot describe it. The superstitious idea attached to the death above referred to, is that the soul of the dead man, being dissatisfied is likely to inspire his children or near relatives with a spirit of witchcraft and that they are likely to become a public danger in consequence.