AFRICAN WITCHCRAFT

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1197, 6 September 1927, Page 8

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.