AN AMIABLE PEOPLE.
' -*— " POWER 01? NEW GUINEA SORCERERB. WEDDING CAKE A LA PAPUA. (By Tclceraph.—Press Aesoclationo-OopyrifrlU.) Sydnay, July 13. The Rev. Copland King; of tho Now Guinea (Papua,) Anglican Mission, states that sorcery is frightfully l .prevalent among the natives in tho island. So terrified are they by wrcerers that many of them dio of. sheer fright, thus enhanoing the magician's reputation. Old women having the reputation of witches will, Mr. King states, dig up their own dead and eat a portion of the flesh, with the object of obtaining character. - < - Mr. King adds ,that after a successful head-hunting raid tho flesh of tho vanquished is sent by the victors to their friends, much after tho manner in which civilised. people send wedding-cako, Cannibalism, however, is gradually giving way to civilising influences.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 559, 14 July 1909, Page 7
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132AN AMIABLE PEOPLE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 559, 14 July 1909, Page 7
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