WOMAN WITH "EVIL EYE."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9390, 11 December 1920, Page 2

WOMAN WITH "EVIL EYE."

Residents of Louyecinnes, on the edge of the Marly-le-Roi Forest, in the Seine-et-Oise, have appealed to the police for protection against ; a woman who possessed an "evil eye" of the mediaeval ages. Even educated inhabitants of the district fear her spell and are threatening to move away from Louvecinnes unless the woman is banished or kept under surveillance . Inasmuch as the French law prohibits burning at the stake, which is the only known cure for such a spell, the woman is still at large, and the police commissioner of the district is awaiting instructions from the Paris prefecture before taking any radical measures. ; According to residents of Louvecinnes, who piously make the sign of the cross whenever mentioning her, the woman is a war refugee from the Ardennes, having lost her husband and her sons in the war. Her look is said to be, deadlier tha*n the claws of any beast, and that all she needs to do is to look at anything or anyone and it or they immediately wither or fall victims of some illness. . ■ It .was said that a profiteering hotelkeeper overcharged her recently, whereupon she cursed him. Two minutes later he fell and broke his leg.