ACCUSED OF SORCERY.
PEASANT SUPERSTITION IN * FRANCE. OLD MAN DONE TO DEATH. (Received Sunday, 11 p.m.) PARIS, February 20. An appalling story of country folks’ superstition comes from the village of Ballots, where Auguste Guillot, nged 78, became the suspect of sorcery, because he did not attend Mass, and also because horses and sheep stampeded at the sight of him. Finally he fondled a baby which died of convulsions next day. Later lie was crossing a field when the sheep stampeded. The shepherdess cudgelled him and knocked him down. Her brothers than joined in battering him and they left Guillot apparently dead. Next morning Guillot crawled to another farmhouse and begged attention to his injuries; but the farmer’s wife savagely attacked him, gouging out one of his eyes with a pitchfork. She smashed his nose and pushed the unconscious man under a hedge, where he was found three days afterwards. Guillot lingered for three months and has just died a physical wreck. — (A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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165ACCUSED OF SORCERY. Wairarapa Age, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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