FRENCH SORCERY TRIAL.
EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY, f A WEEPING IMAGE. An extraordinary story of credulity has been told at Bordeaux, at a so-called sorcery trial, in which a police official, a stockbroker, an orchestra conductor. and a bank clerk were found guilty of assaulting a Syrian priest, Sapoinifihi, and were sentenced to three months' imprisonment and fined £20,. The assault concerned a miraculous figure, called the Weeping Virgin, which is reputed to have wept real tears, by which the sick could be cured. It is alleged that tSapounghi, desiring to gain possession of this image, cast an evil spell over its.possessor, Madame Mesniii, who declared' that she had been bitten on the face by an invisible mouth, and had been assailed by terrible suffering, so that she became homicidal. Her friends beat Papounghi, attempting to get his supply of blood of toads and other unclean animals, and a. nude was black figure which he used in his lorottieii'
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1920, Page 6
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157FRENCH SORCERY TRIAL. Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1920, Page 6
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