FEAR OF WITCHES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11548, 27 January 1932, Page 5

FEAR OF WITCHES

STRANGE BELIEFS STILL

LONDON, January 21. Belief in witches and ghosts still lingers in the more remote parts of Britain, despite wireless, aeroplanes and other modern inventions. A witness at M'olverhampton Polite Court refused to give evidence on the ground that a woman, in the case was a witch and would put him under a spell if he told what he had seenThe Court laughed, but inquiries show that thousands of country people stoutly believe in witchcraft. The secretary of the Folk Lore Society (Mr. A It. M’right) told the “Daily Mail” that old women, credited with witches’ powers, wore found particularly in the rural districts of Devon ,Cornwall, and Norfolk. I was recently informed of the death of a Somersetshire witch,” he said. “M’hen she was aware that she was dying, she sent for her bowl of toads and called them bv name. Eaek hopped out and promptly died, and then she died.”

The latest- ghost story conies from Lincoln, where a married couple, whose aunt committed suicide a week ago, have been haunted by a ghost with a bugle. Mysterious bugle notes, heard on the day of the aunt’s death, have since sounded nightly. Neighbors are sitting up with the terrified couple.