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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1025, 18 August 1883, Page 2

A Russian newspaper reports a case which shows that the superstition 'attributing magical power to the eating of human flesh is not confined to the. Australian aborigines. In the graveyard of the village of Naurusow in the Naltshik district, the police noticed that the grave of a recently buried child was much disturbed. Suspicion fell on a man reputed to be a sorcerer. His hut was searched, and he was found sitting at the fire, on which was a pot simmering. He refused to answer any questions ; but on the adjoining bedroom being examined a large portion of the body of the missing child was found hanging from a hook, and in a corner of the room were the skulls of several children. The wretch, upon being interrogated as to where' was the remaining portion of the child’s body, pointed silently to the pot. His daughter, a miserable, starved girl, admitted on examination that the father used regularly to steal the bodies of little children, cook and eat the flesh, and from the fat make ointments and medicines, which he gave as charms. He bad threatened to "kill and eat her if she ever gave information of his doings. Kidney complaint, one of the most common and yet most neglected diseases of this country, can be readily cured by the use of Hop Bitters. See.—[Advx.] 8 Mother Swan’s worm Syrup. —Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic ; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation, is. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. 3