The Vailala Madness was a social movement in the Papuan Gulf, in the Territory of Papua beginning in the later part of 1919 and petering out after 1922. It is generally accepted as the first well-documented cargo cult, a class of millenarian religio-political movements, although the expression cargo cult itself dates from the mid 1940s.
Read more about Vailala Madness: Name, Return of The Ancestors, White Ancestors, Regulation of Life After Colonial Fashion, Strict Moral Code, Abandonment of Ceremonies, Source of These Beliefs, Observers and The End of The Movement
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“Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever, and what rage is to anger. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)