SATANISM REVIVED
(Press Assn.-
ghastly discovery in well of thirty mutilated human bodies BOOKS ON BLACK MAGIC
— By Telegraph — Copyright.)
HELSINGFORS, Monday." The astounding discovery of 30 corpses indescribably mutilated, at the bottom of a well eaused the Finnish police to suspect a widespread outbreak of satanisirq in which limhs are cut off bodies after death. The earetaker of the mortuary in the Malm churchyard, named Saare-u-helmo, has been arrested. Several books on blaek magic were in his possession and also photographs of dead bodies. Since his arrest he has spent the time singing hymn tunes with cannibalistic words, but there is no clue to his associates. Meanwhile a number of recent paupers' graves have been opened and | mutilated bodies of both sexes have I been discovered, some from graveyards other than Malm, accounting for at least fifty mutilated bodies, also numerous arms and legs were found in the well. Black magic was practised extensively in Russia before the war, and possibly refugees jreintroduced the practices in Finland. Scotland Yard is assisting the Finnish police in their investigations.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 October 1931, Page 3
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