SUPERSTITIOUS GIRLS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)

SUPERSTITIOUS GIRLS.

RETURN TO LOVE CHARMS. POPULARITY OF DRAGONS’ BLOOD. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, July 8. Girls all over Britain are turning again to love charms and philtres, says a special correspondent of the Daily Mirror. Hundreds of women will pay any fee for a magic mixture or the secret of an incantation that will bring the beloved closer to them It is not just superstitious countrywomen who mutter love spells. High-ly-educated women in London and other big cities try it, too. Some of them say that the “love rites” have been "successful,” that men they wished to charm have been brought to them. Dozens of cases have been investigated by the Daily Mirror. Names of the girls are withheld, as they were given in confidence. “Dragons’ Blood," a gum resin which comes from Hie Indies and which was used in olden times as a medicine, is the popular love charm. It can be bought from any chemist. A little of the dragons’ blood is wrapped in paper by the girl who l wishes to charm her lover, and thrown on the fire—preferably on a Friday night. Then while the "love” is burning the girl mutters: “May he no pleasure or profit see Till he comes back again to me." A well-known Cornish authority on witchcraft, Mr W. 11. Paynter, of Callington, receives letters from j women every week. "I always tell them,” said Mr j Paynter, “that I do not believe in these superstitious practices, that I cannot supply amulets or spells, and that I am only interested in the subject of witchcraft as a hobby.”