THE LAW BANNED THE EVIL EYE
Ever slnce a Black Forest alcliemist named Faust sold his soul to Mephistopheles in a sixteenth-cen-tury deal for the secret of tnrning dross to gold, Germany's superstitious peasants have feared witches and held sorcerers in awe. From Lower Saxony's eerie Luneberg heath to Bavaria's mist-shroud-ed mountains', exorcism of devils is an almost daily rite. A recent inquiry turned up 300 practitioners of the occult arts in Hamburg alone. Country drugstores offer "devil's dung" for sale, to protect farm animals from "the evil eye-" Recently in an effort to end this hangover of medteval superstitions, a "witchcraft law" was introduced in IVest Germany's Parliament. Its aim : To enable prosecution of hnndreds of charlatans preying on gullible rural folk and to protect from "persecution and bodily attack" seores of persons hounded each year with the fearful title "witch."
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Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 289, 22 August 1957, Page 6
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