Witchcraft in the Twentieth Century.
(To the Editor of the Times.)
Sir, —In your issue of the 14th of this month, I notice an article stating that a New Zealand Judge sentenced a Native Woman to six months’ imprisonment for practising witchcraft. If so, he has put back the pointer on the dial of Time 200 years. We may next hear of the stake and fagot. I have often wondered what were the burning sins of witchcraft. I now find it to be the practise of hydropathy (without license). Some dip to clean their natural bodies, and others as a symbolical cleansing of what St. Paul calls the spiritual body. If anything more than another will confirm in the Native mind, the belief in witchcraft, it will be that sentence! The more perseeu-.. tion, the more so-called witches : this has been the experience of the past. What have we come to ? Bias the world moved back to the dark ages When men believed in witchcraft, and burnt 11,000,000 of innocent women, in their diabolical craze of witch-hunting ?—i dnl, etc., A. Y. Boss.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 42, 19 February 1901, Page 4
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