NEGROES' "BLOOD RITUAL."

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 17

NEGROES' "BLOOD RITUAL."

.; ""sijRAORpiXARY story: FROM CUBA. 'lie.New tork newspapers of December 2 Puttied! dispatches from .Havana contalnkfc extraordinary revelations regardlug ; -Writtial. which is alleged to be prac-tisd-.in; connection with the cult of ""•oioolsm" (negro sorcery) in Cuba. The ; 'tJiois hare been charged with killing a . "*e.girl lour years of age for the pur- . ***oI "Voodoo" sacrifice, and the deteclijjj .engaged on the case claim to have ' Ear-leu the existence of what praotically | s ?onts to a "Voodoo" trust. This organza is said to have branches all over the lslo fl. and the blood of white children obI ***! hy agents in one district is alleged : "Vve been forwarded to other parts of j 8t isiaaQ for p nl .p OS es of ritual sacri--1 -*■' | h tie case in question the allegation is > r . ~"'tie "Voodoos," or witc-h doctors, after :j. the child's blood, saturated the II ' llc< * 110l > and then dynamited the °*"se in-which the orgies took place, the | J fet being to obliterate all trace of the . ■ r o *. The noise of tke explosion, howi...■■'•' brought up the rural guards, and ■■: ■SSt? t kvestlgations led to the arrests. It the arrest of forty "Voodoo" *S ors .' te expected shortly, as the result (.*""-.. rears' tracking. It is generally be'"»l¥ that tbe blood ° f Wb " ito girlS s °^ ht *'fc ; -- is considered by them as <K_ 3lo?t Bowerful charm against ill.— S^Jlews. ; 7 '.