ROASTING A MAORI.
[By Tblbgbaph.] NAPIER, May 26. A curious case of one Maori roasting another came before the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day. Herika, a follower of To Whiti, and a sort of minor prophet and missionary combined, was charged with assaulting one Horiona, an old, blind and roßk-minded Maori. The evidence showed that the old man was ill, and the prisoner, who was consulted as a kind of medicine man, declared that he waß possessed of a devil. To cure him he had a Maori copper made and heated, and lined with green leaveß in the most approved fashion, and then laid Heriona on the copper. The old gentleman tried to wriggle away, when Herika tied his hands and feet. As this was not satisfactory, he sat on the poor man to I keep him well down on the stones. Naturally i the old fellow cried out, when Herika de- t clared that that was the devil trying to get out i of his body. At last the bystanders interfered, and rescued Heriona, but not before he i had boen dreadfully burnt. The case was re- i manded to allow the old man to be examined i by a medical man. '
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1952, 27 May 1880, Page 2
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