WITCHCRAFT
BELIEF STILL SURVIVES. TWO LATEST EPISODES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright;. fßeceived this day at 11 Vo. a.m.) LONDON, June 10. How belief in witchaft still survives in agricultural districts, is shown by, two episodes occurring as far apart as Somersetshire and Hungary. In tne Somerset case, a farmer was hound over to keep the peace for threatening ail ancient neighbour, whom he accused of casting an evii eye. The Hungarian case had a more tragic ending. A farmer, Pittlick, became mysteriously ill and in a frenzy prophesised that the witch who had cast the spell over him would appearin the sickroom and at the exact moment an old hag hobbled into the room. Pittlick’s family beat her to death with sticks, and Pittlick leapt from the bed completely cured. The assailants were arrested and sentenced to long terms. They appealed to the Supreme Court and the sentences were reduved to three months, the Court holding that the family was justified in the ‘ assumption that the woman was a : witch.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1929, Page 5
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