"Ghosts, the Destroyers!"
A BLOOD-THIRSTY PEOPLE.
OFFER HUMAN SACRIFICES.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.! (Received 9.'10 a.m.)
London, November 23
Mr Araaury Talbot, district commissioner in Southern Nigeria, in .an interview described the exploration iof the Kket district, where.there dwell the most blood-thirsty people in Africa.
Their customs and ceremonies have I remained unchanged from the days of [ancient Egypt. Secret societies still offered human sacrifices. One woman ;showed him fragments of charred bone, j which she declared were her, brother's. |' Later, the missionaries complained lof the maltreatment of school children by a society called "Ghosts, the Destroyers." In one case the missionvaries rescued a girl about to be sacriIficed. The head priest is accustomed to [make the announcement "The Ghosts will eat to-dav."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 5
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