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"It is probably no accident that such a tale should come from the Mani of all places. The wildness of both the land and the people has long been legendary. The name itself is said to derive from the Greek word which gives us 'mania' and 'maniac', and even in the 1950s the intrepid traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor found the region formidably strange, impoverished and remote."

"We might add that, ironically, their belief in the authority of Western scientific medicine was in a way equal to a belief in magic: its power, like that of the witch-doctor, was absolute and unquestionable."