Fatal Treatment for Witchcraft
| Bt Telegraph.] | united press association.] Auckland, 21st July. Constable Moore, of Kitmo, is investigating tho cause of the death of sundry Maoris who died in the Ngunguru district within the post few months, it is alleged through treatment by a Maori tohunga who was providing remedies against witchcraft, or makutu. The treatment, it is said, consisted of being stripped and put into a scalding bath and tlion cooled off in the open air, and in other cases tho application of poultices of boiling hot potatoes or pumpkins to the bare skin. Eight persons are stated to havo Hied in tho Ngnngnrn district, from an infant six months old to a girl aged 15. Constable Moore has been informed that 40 to 50 natives have died between North Cape and Whangarei through this kind of heroic treatment for preventing being makutued or bewitched.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 2
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146Fatal Treatment for Witchcraft Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 2
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