MAKING HEADWAY
There is a story from Borneo that illustrates how rumors get started. The story is that the island’s richest inhabitant, the sultan of Brunei was afraid his country’s oil reserves were running out. On the advice of a fortune-teller, the sultan supposedly sent his subjects out to the neighboring Malaysian province of Saba to bring back a magical cure for his fears: human heads. Police did find three headless bodies. Rumor would have died down except for that. The headless bodies were probably the result of bandits. From “Beware of the Headhunters,” Newsweek, December 11, 1989
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