LATE NEWS
BODIES FOUND IN WELi
BLACK MAGIC IN FINLAND
OUTBREAK OF SATANISM
United I'rcss Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 13tb October, 2.30 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, 12th October. The astonishing discovery of thirty corpses, indescribably mutilated, at the bottom of a well caused the Finnish police to suspect a widespread outbreak of Satanism in which the limbs were cut off the bodies after death. The caretaker of a mortuary attached to the Malm churchyard named Saarenheimo, was arrested with several books on black magic in his possession, also photographs of the dead bodies. Since his arrest he has spent his time singinghymn tunes with cabbalistic words, but there is no clue to his associates. Meanwhile, a number of recent paupers' graves, with tho mutilated bodies of both sexes, have been discovered, some from graveyards other than Malm, accounting for at least fifty mutilated bodies, also numerous arms and legs found in the well. Black magic was practised extensively in Kussia before the war, and possibly refugees have reintroduced the practices in Finland. Scotland Yard is assisting tho Finnish police in the.'; investigations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 10
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180LATE NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 10
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