WITHCRAFT
FAILS TO ACHIEVE PURPOSE
A WOMAN’S CONFESSION
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PARIS, Sept. 15. An extraordinary murder, accompanied by sorcery, was revealed, in the Metz' courts, where a wife and her butcher lover were charged with murdering a carter after efforts to kill him by witchcraft had failed. The wife admits that, acting on the advice of a sorceress, she suspended sheep’s lungs in the room and draped them with black, the lungs representing the husband’s heart. As the clock struclc midnight she thrust twelve needles into the lungs. When the twelfth was driven in, which was to kill the man, she went to the carter’s bedroom and was astonished to find him unharmed. Then she and her butcher lover decided to murder him. The sorceress was arrested, but was released after the wife’s confession.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 September 1924, Page 5
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136WITHCRAFT Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 September 1924, Page 5
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