A TYROLESE MYSTERY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 407, 2 October 1889, Page 4

A TYROLESE MYSTERY.

A Vienna correspondent writes : ' A strange sbory has been lately going the round of the Tyrol. In a pretty cottage, in the mountain village ot Radoin, on the Covalese high road, lives Veronica Danova, a peasant woman, unmarried, who for the last four years has been confined to her bed and has taken no food. Every Friday, after mass, she falls into a state of coma, from which she can only be roused by the priest, after Divine Service. So much has been said about this marvellous case that hundreds of visitors daily wend their way to Radein, and reiuin ama/ed and perplexed with what they have seen, One lady, however, seems to have been bent on solving the mystery, and thus divulges the result of her observations : " When I went to visit her it struck me as rather supicious that our party should be made to wait some time outside the house before we were admitted, apparently in order that the neces&ary preparations might be made. On entering we found a woman of about thirty, lying on a bed in a neatly - arranged room. The bed and linen were irreproachably clean. The woman's face was as white as wax. On her forehead there were a number of red-coloured spots, said to be blood-swoat, but which were quite symmetrically placed, and seemed to have dried conveniently, so as not to soil the bedclothes. She appeared to bo unconscious, and motionless Her eyes were turned heavenwards, and she made no answer when spoken to ; buo in the course of about half an hour her eyes lost their previous fixedness, and the colour returned to her cheeks. Our impression is that when the woman expects visitors, by some means or other she gets herself into a state of lethargy. A pot of red colour which we happened to discover on a bench outside accounts for the • blood-drop? ' on her face.'"