About the book: 1969 / The Malagasy Republic is a country looking forward, where the economy and culture are developing, where there is a university, schools and hospitals. But this country is still full of unsolved secrets that attract the minds of scientists - ethnographers, anthropologists, zoologists, botanists, etc. For all of them, “blank spots” remained on the maps of the country. The author of this book, the Austrian ethnographer Lotte Gernbeck, studied little-known tribes in Madagascar, and I also got acquainted with the centuries-old experience of traditional medicine. [Adapted for AlReader]