FEAR OF WITCHCRAFT
AFRICANS, TERRIFIED BY WOMAN’S THREAT, BEAT HER TO DEATH By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 10.52 a.m. CAPETOWN, Monday. That belief in witchcraft still survives in South Africa was proved by an extraordinary case heard at King Williamstown, when eight youths were sent to prison for killing an old native woman. After a native dance the youths went into a hut for further rites, when the woman entered, and | was alleged to have stated her intention to bewitch the boys. Greatly alarmed, they beat her to death, believing it was the oniy way of saving themselves from the spell.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 1
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