“END OF THE WORLD"
A labourer’s wife in Copenhagen, named Parikkala, in a fit of religious mania, prophesied that the end of the world was immediately pending. She beheaded her 18-months-old daughter with an axe, and then stabbed herself three times. .
A farmer in (the same district simiarly attempted to commit suicide with in axe.
Reports that the end of the world was coming at 9 p.m. on February 6 gained wide currency in the Baltic countries. A number of people in Latvia arranged tol sleep in graves that night instead of their beds, and the gravediggers made small fortunes.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2119, 26 May 1925, Page 2
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100“END OF THE WORLD" King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2119, 26 May 1925, Page 2
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