NOISY RELIGIOUS RITES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3315, 20 October 1919, Page 2

N OISY RELIGIOUS RITES.

MAN WHO SLAUGHTERED FOWLS IN ins BEDROOM. A curious rite, said to be Jewish, was mentioned in the 'Sl"lol'edi*.ch County Court, when an application was made for the possession of‘. a house in Culvestone Crescent, Dalston. . Applicant said. that every -Saturday night defendant carried out the rite, which consisted of making a. loud noise, of shouting, dancing, and stamping until early Sunday vmorning; He slaughtered fowls in his bedifoom, besmearing the Walls with blood), and washed clothes, ‘the water trickling through the floor on to applicant’s bed in the room below. Further evidence was given that the rite required e banquet from midnight to 2 o’clock in the morning. in order to drive the evil spirit, Asm-ofdeus, into the ground. There was plenty of noise, in which usually seven or eight. relatives joined with the defendant. It was a legend connected with the Queen of Sheba, and King Solomon. Defendant said he was obliged to per-: form rites because he was a Jew. The judge said, as the slaughtering of fovvls had been stopped for some time, he. would make no order ‘for possession, and allowed the defendant his costs. '