AFRICAN WITCHCRAFT
THE LATEST EVIDENCE
DEATH LORN THE EVIL EYE
fAust. and N.Z. Cable). (Received Sept. (>. 2 p.m.) Capetown, Sept, A
Evidence that a belief in witchcraft still survives in South- Airica was given in an extraordinary case beard in King Williamstown, where eight youths were sent, to prison for killing an old native woman. t
After a native dance, the youths went- into a but. lor lurtber rites, when the woman entered and i.. alleged to.Jin.ve stated her intention to bewitch the boys.
Greatly ■ alarmed, the boys heat her to death, believing that to be the only, way of saving themselves Irom lier evil spell.
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1197, 6 September 1927, Page 8
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