Exorcising a Spirit.
FRENCH FEASANTS’CRIME. ’ xi CRUCIFY THEIR SON. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) [Uniran Press Association.] (Received 9.10 a.m.) Paris, June 23. Remy Castaings, the son of peasants at St. Etienen de Baigorry, Bayonne, became demented, and was ordered to hospital. , His parents, believing Remy would cast a spell over the family, resolved before complying with the order to crucify him by crossing his arms above his head and fastening him to the bed. Here he was forcibly held struggling for three days, when he died from suffocation. Another son, Henri, was also seized with dementia, and his parents kill 7 ed their dog and cat, and burned the bodies to exorcise the evil spirit. The authorities put Henri in the asylum.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 24 June 1914, Page 5
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121Exorcising a Spirit. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 24 June 1914, Page 5
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