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Baby Peter and ICT in Children’sServices
Sue WhiteProfessor of Social WorkUniversity of Lancaster 
 
Real Problems: Poisonous Prescriptions?
 
Magic?
The transporting of the log is not an easy task… the nativesresort to a magical rite which makes the canoe lighter. Apiece of dry banana is put on top of the log. The owner or builder beats the log with a bunch of dry lalang grassand utters the following spell: “Come down defilement bycontact with excrement! Come down, rot! Come downfungus…” and so on, invoking a number of deteriorationsto leave the log. In other words, the heaviness andslowness due to all these magical causes are thrown outof the log (Malinowski,
 Argonauts of the Western Pacific 
,1932, p. 129)
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