ANCIENT SUPERSTITIONS

Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 12

ANCIENT SUPERSTITIONS

TESTING BUCK MAGIC RECIPE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* BERLIN", December 20.- . (Received December 26, at 1 p.m.)l Fraulein TJrta r’obn, a daughter a Breslau doctor, one of the world’* greatest authorities on witchcraft, ha* agreed to brave the rigours of cold on| a snow-clad mountain at midnight to' test an ancient black magic recipe* This is in the possession of the National Psychic Research Society’s laboratory* and gives the directions for the produo tion of a “fair youth,” . A maiden of pure heart, clad ill white, must anoint a he-goat with ai concoction of bats’ blood, scrapings on church bells, soot, and honey. Thai animal will then turn into a beautiful youth. The rite must be performed ati full moon on the highest peak of thaj Harz mountains. Most of the girls who' were approached by the society to doi it feared that something uncanny would happen, but Fraulein Bohn, who is 20, years of age, agreed instantly, declaim ing that she was not afraid.