BEWITCHED" COUPLE.
»,n amazing story of delusions told to a woman fortune teller at Angers by a French farmer mimed Bout-gaud aud his wife has come to llKht. Declaring that they were possessed by spirits who had ordered them to come and consult her, the couple had walked from their farm. « miles from Angers, although the husband has a wooden leg. The man asserted that whenever they stopped to rest the spirits shouted In their cars, "'let on: get on!" When the couple tried to board a train they were given i tickets which were bewitched, j They ate nothing on the journey, because ' they were convinced that nil food would | poison rbem. The fortune-teller conducted the couple, ! who w : ere almost exhausted, to the police 1 station, and they are now In the infirmary.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1922, Page 19
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135BEWITCHED" COUPLE. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1922, Page 19
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