pt. 1. The poison. The jaguar -- "The frontier of death" -- The Calabar hypothesis -- White darkness and the living dead -- A lesson in history -- Everything is poison, nothing is poison -- pt. 2. Interlude at Harvard. Columns on a blackboard -- Voodoo death -- pt. 3. The secret societies. In summer the pilgrims walk -- The serpent and the rainbow -- Tell my horse -- Dancing in the lion's jaw -- Sweet as honey, bitter as bile -- Epilogue.