Priestly ecstasy

In the New World, specialists similar to the Druids existed in primitive societies and functioned as shamans. The shaman is a priest-doctor who uses magic to cure the sick, to divine the hidden, and to control events that affect the welfare of the people. The shaman seeks to achieve ecstasy, often by the use of plants containing... 

Now a second demonstration occurs in which the crafty canon actually leaves the priest to perform the transmutation on his own. He provides a hol-lowed-out stirring stick to the priest that. .. you guessed it. .. is filled with an ounce of silver secured with blackened wax. So now, completely outside the influence of the canon, powder of projection works for the priest himself. The canon works a final demonstration-transmuting copper to silver, leaving the priest in an ecstasy of joyful greed ... 

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