BELIEF IN SORCERY
STRANGE CASE IN FRANCE. Paris, December 1: A strange case, proving the continued belief in sorcery in France, and recalling the Abbe Desuoyers case, is being heard at Mayenne, where Auguste Cuillot, a septuagenarian farmer, is suing eight_ neighbours for attempting to beat him to death. Believing Guillot had the power to injure their cattle, the accused broke into his house and beat him with bludgeons. Next day he crawled to a neighbouring farm, but instead of being succoured was again thrashed with sticks, and dragged to a deep wood and left to die. He was discovered, however, and taken to hospital.
The accused men in Court pleaded that Guillot was a sorcerer, and put spells on themselves and their children, and make cattle dance. The Court reserved judgment for a week.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 64, 9 December 1926, Page 9
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135BELIEF IN SORCERY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 64, 9 December 1926, Page 9
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