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OF MIRACULOUS .STATUES ABBE ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT \ By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. Paris, January 6. A violent attack on the Abbe Desttovers. of Bombon, near Mehui, is featured in the Press. After Mass twelve persons threw pepper in his eyes, bound him, stripped him of clothes, and flogged him alternately. His cries attracted gendarmes, who arrested the assailants. They declare that they had come expressly from Bordeaux to chastise the Abbe, whom they accused of witchcraft. They blamed him for family misfortunes. The assailants were charged with conspiracy, assault, aud outraging morality. Behind the attack fs the weirdest storv. Madame Mesmin had a statue of the Virgin which wept, but ceased to weep when removed to the convent. She replaced it with a facsimile from Milan, which did not weep, but exhaled a sweet perfume. That also ceased. Madame Mesmin began to suffer, then accused the Abbe of witchcraft, despite the fact that the authorities demonstrated the absurdity of miraculous statues. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 10
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165WEIRD STORY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 10
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