MAORI SUPERSTITION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1419, 29 November 1886, Page 2

MAORI SUPERSTITION.

The Advocate says that about 150 Na tves fr m theHpper Rangitikei district hav>, during the pari week or so, left for In'and Patea on a c iru tn mission. It appears H at there is a certain prominent Maori in that di«iri.it, who is supposed to be gifte I with powers similar to those claimed by the winches of oM. It is a'leged hy the Maoris that th a norcerer, about XT months ape, “ bewitched ” the w fe of H. emsiw, ihe well-km wa Maori ctih f, and the' her :. e-c- nt dece-se was a result of the sp >l's exetoised by him. The ob ject nf the m s ratvm of the Maoris from ’h's dll net is to pmure fatisfactior. fr'm 'he weilder nf the magic wand, “hose n«o <* wn believe, is Te An. The journey which the 150 uaoris have under taken is a 1 exceedingly mtlse-nie one nnd l : will ori-t thorn a good d al of money, to a y not hi ig cf >ho woee f labor in withdrawing th m {■< m heir cultivations. It seems p isb’o t : a t this riage, when the various Christian dennnainat oas have done so much to ny to Ct-risHnni-e the Maoris, tho htrhs'ou* old Native stipetst tlons should arili hold so much away over their mi”ds, even in districts ties the centres of civilt a'ion.