A VILLAGE RUN MAD.
A very extraordinary case is about tn come before the High Tribunal of Malaga. A few mouths ago a woman, ti native of the village of Torrox, declared that the Virgin Mary hud appeared to her, and had ordered a new Gospel for the salvation of mankind as the end of the world was at hand. Tho womuuV story seems to have been believed without hesitation, and soon tho whole vilbiyc was in a state of religious frenzy. Tho woman preached in favour of the abandonment of earthly possessions, and advocated a return to the mode of life and habits of primitive man. During the height of tho frenzy a largo fire was lighted in the village into which the converts to this fantastic superstition threw their valuable furniture and clothes, men women, and children dancing i.nd shouting around the fire in a t-tate of nudity. Warned of what was going on, the local gendarmerie arrived only just in time to save the infants from being thrown into the fire by their frenzied mothers and to prevent the houses of tho village from being set on fire.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2423, 21 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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191A VILLAGE RUN MAD. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2423, 21 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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