MAORI SUPERSTITION.
- t AjGKi.Aitt>, Taeiday- nighty Ejttraordinarjr* "stateihents have*"' b v een made by some Natives^ jtttpw^! They say thatf a man named Hoaniand. his wife were a short time ago digging gum near Port Russell, dCiihe; Waikitor Rivjor.; Tliewif^ toot ill "an<i died, butthe story became cuVrent chat she had been bewitched by her husband, when the relatives of the woman, who:rßside m the K'-ng Coun.try,.;and. two brothers came down for the purpose' of killingithe sinani'iWho .was jitossessedjpf : such, drsajdful" power. : They found' him quicjly digging for firum. ,and as j, 0 jj a( j hole open, t eni ; M'kiile'd o Wm;'w'itli'tpni'a'uawks, put him ,n Liiehole.and covered him up, then returning to the King Country, '•ongi'atulatmg themselves- upon- having done-^the-State-some service by ridding New Zealand of a mnn 1 who might be the death of .any bjdy, whenever he took ifcintd his /hek|. Tbese are the fact;?, as stated the NatiTJS m town yejterjlay, but prpbabiy'it'^will not be tjiotight- while to- inquire into tbe'mufci'e.V It nj-.«y be mentioned that-W-iremu Rewit ', v weil' known; chiefs atvKaipara,:' has tht.o r ill for some time, and both, he and his friends are cpnvinced ;that he ..haa.jbeen. be-j witohedj and the; onjy cure lies iii a, 'rai to tlie priest ' resident amohg ih'e "Kirigitu whPcan;remove l^the,BpelL;: ■■■ : }r iii^JU ;•; 3
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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 67, 1 September 1880, Page 2
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216MAORI SUPERSTITION. Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 67, 1 September 1880, Page 2
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