NEW GUINEA.
SORCERY AND CANNIBALISM. __ A MISSIONARY'S STORY. HEAD-HUNTING STILL PREVALENT. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received July 13, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Rev. Copland King, of the New Guinea Anglican Mission, states that sorcery is frightfully prevalent among the natives in the is] and. So terrified are they by sorcerers that many of them die of sheer fright, thus enhancing the magician's reputation. Old women having the reputation of witches will, Mr. King states, dig up their own dead and eat a portion of the flesh, with the object of obtaining character. Mr. King adds that after a successful head-hunting raid the flesh of the vanquished is sent by the victors to their friends, much after the manner in which civilised people send wedding-cake. Cannibalism, however, is gradually giving way to civilising influences.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1909, Page 7
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136NEW GUINEA. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1909, Page 7
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