![]() The Vanuatu people believe that secrecy is what gives power to the illness. If no one confesses an error, the patient may die. The patient, or a family member, may confess. The therapy that counters this sickness is confession. "If you are angry for two or three days, sickness will come," said one local man. ![]() "In most cases, however, specific 'untie-error' rites could be performed to atone for such errors and thereby diminish one's accumulation of them." Īmong the islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, people believe that illness usually is caused by sexual misconduct or anger. Some believe error angers the gods, others that it attracts malevolent gods, and still others believe the guilt caused by error made one sick. In many Polynesian cultures, it is believed that a person's errors (called hara or hala) caused illness.
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