DEVIL TEASED BY GIRL!

Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 8

DEVIL TEASED BY GIRL!

AMAZING CLAIM PEASANT WHO IS PSYCHIC MYSTERY. Scientists are to study the remarkable' “ghost phenomena”, associated with Eleonore Zugun, a thirteen-year-old -Rumanian peasant girl, who is coming to London. That her methods are very curmus may be gathered from. the following accounts; —To tease “the devil into a furious tempershe leaves out for him a saucerful of vinegar, salt, mustard, and pepper. To appease him she leaves chocolates hidden about the room. Sometimes the*chocolates disappear without apparent human agency, but if the devil is too long,in finding the chocolates Eleonore disposes of them herWATCH FOR TRICKERY.

Eleonore’s name for the devil is “ Dracu,” and underneath an ‘ automatic ” drawing of,a Guy Fnwkcs-loqk-ing figure she nas .written the inscription, “Dracu, as 1 have seen him at the door." ~ _ ... The National Laboratory of Psychical Research has arranged for Zugun’s visit to London, and she is being brought oyer from Vienna by the Countess \\ assilko Serecki. T . “ I made a special journey to Vienna to study this remarkable case,” said Mr Harry Price, honorary director of the laboratory, on Thursday, to a ‘Weekly Post’ representative. lam convinced that she has a very curious power which enables her to induce manifestations popularly known as ‘ poltergeist phenomena.’ Tor three months the child has been living with the Countess Wassilko, and during that time the Countess has never been able to detect any trickery which might account for the wonderful happenings. MENTALITY DEFECTIVE. “ These happenings include automatic writing, teeth marks suddenly appearing on the child’s arms and wrists, finger scratches on the chest, raps on furniture, the displacement of objects, and their sudden reappearance, and the hurling by invisible means of a stiletto across the room. “ Eleonore is in -most respects absolutely normal, but, although thirteen, sho has the mentality of a child of eight. When asked who is responsible for the strange happenings,'she replies “It is Dracu.” She recently evolved the idea that the phenomena were stronger and more frequent if the “devil were put into a temper.”