In crisis situations and economically depressed regions, various cults are liable to emerge. Such seems to be the case in Calcutta, where according to A. CHAKRABORTY, a cargo cult movement took shape, reaching its peak in I967-68. G. SCHÜTTLER presents the results of a team research on exiled Tibetan oracle priests. The oracle ceremony is described, a medicopsychological analysis of the subjects is summarized, and special attention is given to methods of pro ducing trances and prophecies. Two papers, by H. B. M. MURPHY and A. C. RAMAN and by A. C. RAMAN and H. B. M. MURPHY, follow. Having shown that the course and long-term outcome of schizophrenia is different in Mauri tius from that in Britain, the authors discovered that occidental traditional prognostic indicators do not work as well with European or American as with Mauritian patients, except for the small Moslem Indian groups.