A TERRIBLE STORY.
SORCERY AND CANNII BALISM. PREVALENT IN NEW GUINEA. HEAD HUNTING RAIDS. United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received July 13, 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY, July 13. The Rev. Copland King, of the New Guinea Anglican Mission, states that sorcery is frightfully prevalent among the natives in the island. So terrified are thsy by sorcerers that many of them die of sheer fright, thus enhancing the magician's reputation. Old women having the reputation of witches will, Mr King states, dig up their own dead and eat a portion of the flesh, with the object of obtaining character. Mr King adds that after a successful head-hunting raid the flesh of the vanquished is sent by the victors to their friends, much after the manner in which civilised people send wedding cake. Cannibalism, however, is gradually giving way to civilising influences.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9542, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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140A TERRIBLE STORY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9542, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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