BEATEN BY CULTISTS.
BOY,S WATCH STRANGE RITUAL Lashed and kicked when they blundered into a Good Friday secret torture ritual of the Penitentes, strange, hallpl„ religious cult, twin Trinidad ?oSths received injuries winch may nrove serious. The youths, invited by two Mexican boys to * V«*. fcente memorial service for their fatheis Same confused in the darkness and followed a group mto an isolated cemetery, when the Penitentes began to whip themselves to accompaniment o* Sieir weird chants. When .the Penitentes began to dance ma circle lashing themselves, they noticed the boys were not of the cult. They were set upon, beaten, and then carried back to Trinidad where they were dumped out, the boy said. . Penitentes, mostly Indians and. Mexican, believe that by. self-punishment the; drive out their sins. ■ Their rituals frequently result in death for the devotees. It was a practice in former years for one of the Penitentes, crowned with thorns and laden with. a heavv cross, to walk to some mountain where he would be crucified and left until Easter. Official interference with this custom lias discouraged but has not destroyed it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 205, 11 June 1932, Page 3
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