SORCERY TRIAL
LONDON, Jan. 25. An extraordinary story of credulity has been told at Bordeaux af a socalied sorcery trial, in which a police official, a stock-broker, an orchestra conductor, and a bank clerk were found guilty of assaulting a Syrian pries], Sapounghi, and were sentenced to three months- imprisonment and fined £2O. The assault concerned a miraculous figure, called the Weeping \ iigiu, which is reputed to have wept real tears, Ly .which the sick could be cured. It- is alleged that tsnponughi, desiring fp gain possession of this image, cast an evil spell over its possessor, Madame Mesnin, *yh(t deck)red that she had been bitten on the face by an invisible mouth, and had been assailed by terrible suffering, so that she became homicidal. Her friends ]jeat Sapounghi, attempting to get his supply pf hjoo.fi of toads and other unclean animals, and a undo was black figure which he used in his sorepries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1920, Page 2
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