BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT
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EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
OLD WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH AFRICAN NATIVES’ CRIME. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION- COPYRIGHT Received 12.55 p.m. to-day. CAPETOWN, Sept. 5. Evidence that witchcraft still survives in South Africa was given in an extraordinary case heard at King Willinmstown, when eight youths were sent to prison for killing an old native woman. After a native dance' the youths went into a hut for further rites when the woman entered and is alleged to have stated her intention of bewitching the boys. This greatly alarmed the boys who beat her to death, believing that it w r as the only way of saving themselves from the spell.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 9
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111BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 9
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