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 On the last day of the two or three year novitiate, the novices are admitted to the central bachelor's house which is surrounded by a great fence. There they are tricked and bullied by elder bachelors and shown once again the magical bog iris plants and bamboo tubes. They sing bachelor spells and songs throughout the night until dawn breaks when they are ordered out of the house and subjected to a painful ritual.
The novices are forced to jump into a pool of water that is full of nettles, briars, and leaves of the nigi plant (shown on the right), which inflames their skin and causes them to swell and appear as "big-men." They are beaten with birch switches by senior bachelors who stand on the edge of the pool to ensure that no one attempts to escape this painful bath.
When they leave the water, bruised and swollen, they are finally considered full members of the Haroli. |
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By 1983, the Haroli bachelor cult, which was the main educational structure of Huli male society, had virtually disappeared. The Haroli cult faced stiff competition from employment and Western educational opportunities as well as disapproval by Christian missionaries.
