GIRL “POSSESSED”
Weird Story from Bulgaria
Au amazing story of a girl, who, it is alleged, has become “possessed of a devil” which plays the prank of tearing her clothes to ribbons while she sleeps anywhere but in a church has been revealed. . The girl is Marie Gekoff, aged 18. One morning she woke to find her clothes had been torn to pieces while she slept. Nobody could explain how it had happened. The occurrence happened a second night. On the third night the father secreted himself in the girl’s bedroom to keep watvh. lie declares that the girl did not move and that nobody entered the room during the night. Yet next morning it was again found that the clothes that were intact when she took them off the night before were in shreds, apparently cut to pieces with some sharp instrument. The girl and her family became terrifled. The next night Marie went to sleep with neighbours, but a similar incident happened. She next tried leaving some of her clothes with the neighbours while she slept elsewhere. The following morning they were found in pieces. Ou being advised that the trouble must be an “evil spirit” that was possessing her Marie slept in a church, where she found peace. Her clothing was iutad next morning. The facts have been recorded in the official “La Bulgarie,” but so far there is no rational explanation.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 18
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235GIRL “POSSESSED” Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 18
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