“THE KING OF DIVINERS.”
LARGE FORTUNE FROM FOR-TUNE-TELLING.
•Sorcerers can coin money in France just now, writes a Paris correspondent. The police are so astounded at the amount fortune-tellers earn that they are tracking them down with exceptional severity. Fines failing' to stem the evil, imprisonment is now resorted to, and the other day the “King of Diviners" got three mouths’ hard labour.
Even when seeing in black and white what people wrote and asked his charms to procure, it is hard to believe that in this twentieth century anyone could be found to solicit such services.
One correspondent wanted a talisman for detecting a lost reef in a Spanish gold mine: another for detecting hidden treasure in Cuba; a third a fluid to render her nephjbw unfit for military service; a fourth an ointment that should render the body invisible, and so enable him to he present unseen at the ,secret sessions of Parliament; another asked for something to make her own hair grow, and to make ihe hair of her rival fall out.
Hundreds of people paid between £5 to £lO a piece for a lucky charm of one kind and another; quite a few asked for a means of incantation to bring ah’out a hated one’s death.
The King of Sorcerers kept a very business-like set of books that showed that since the war his profession had brought him in as much as £SOO a. month.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1597, 12 August 1916, Page 4
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239“THE KING OF DIVINERS.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1597, 12 August 1916, Page 4
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