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THE EVIL EYE.

INDIAN WOMAN KILLED AS A WITCH. Bombay. A curious caso of belief in witchcraft was revealed in a case before Justices Heatou and Shah in the Bombay Hikh Court on a reference by the sessions judge of the Thana district. A cultivator, aged GO, believed his relation, Mani, a woman aged 45, a farm labourer, was a living witch. He was so much obsessed by the idea that Mani, by her witchcraft, had killed his five goats, made him blind in one eyo and harassed his family, that he resolved to free the neighbourhood of her evil influence. One night lie stealthily entered tho woman's apartment, and stabbed her to death in the presence of her two sons. The accused frankly admitted his ■offence of intentionally murdering Mani because she Avas a Avitch. Tho judges, taking into consideration that the accused acted under an hallucination, sentenced him to transportation for life.

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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 35207, 18 May 1918, Page 2

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THE EVIL EYE. Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 35207, 18 May 1918, Page 2

THE EVIL EYE. Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 35207, 18 May 1918, Page 2

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