I, too, wish to know how to make wasps leave the premises with some hand motions

You make it sound like a magic Repel Insects spell.

Sufficiently advanced technology.

This comment applies so profoundly to the original article, doesn't it - the body painting was too advanced for European understanding, so it was taken to be magic in the useless, mere superstition sense of that term. Not quite what Mr. A. C. Clarke meant to point to, but it fills out the meaning behind his point and buttresses it, in my mind.

Wiggle your fingers up and down, as independently (of each other's motion) as possible.