FVttal Treatment for Witchcraft. * ,
IBt Telegraph, i i united prkss association. i Auckland, This Day. A Maori meeting was held at Kaikahe to considor the action of ft tohnnjj* named Wirimu Pobi in treating natives for witchcraft. It is alleged that 200 have been troutod to expel devils, amongst them many children, the system adapted being that of pouring boilinpr water on tho bare bodio», the patients applying hot mashed potatoes. In aome instances the flesh was peeled off. Fifty deaths are attributed to this cause.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1893, Page 2
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86FVttal Treatment for Witchcraft. * , Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1893, Page 2
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