These perspiration hairs in the armpit are used by witchdoctors as a means of curing patients. When the former is called in to [attend] a patient, he tears several hairs from his [own] armpit, places them on to a glowing coal to be singed, and lets the patient smell it. When the coal is extinguished, the witchdoctor pulverizes it in his hands, mixes some fat with it, and rubs the patient in with it.