SUSPECTED OF SORCERY.
FRENCHMAN DONE TO DEATH. PARIS, Feb. 20. An appalling story of country folks’ superstittion conies .from the village of Ballots, where Auguste Guillot, aged 78 years, became the suspect of sorcery, because he did not attend mass, also because horses, and sheep stampeded at the sight of him. Finally he fondled a baby, which died of convulsions the next day. Later, ho was crossing a field, when the sheep stampeded. A shepherdess cudgelled him and knocked him down. Her brothers then 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, and smashed his nose and pushed the unconscious man under a hedge, where he was found three days afterwards. He lingered for three months, and has just died, a physical wreck.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 22, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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154SUSPECTED OF SORCERY. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 22, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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