X-Ray Kills Evil Spirits

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 166, 17 July 1935, Page 9

X-Ray Kills Evil Spirits

Tho X-Ray plant at Bellingen Hospital “cured." an Australian aboriginal woman who was convinced that she was beset by malignant spirits. There is a native superstition that an enemy can place an evil spell upon a person by taking portion of his or her clothing into tlic mountains, and leaving it there for the devils after certain incantations. There had been certain disputes at the North Coast mission station where the woman has been staying, and when she missed portions of her clothing she became convinced that, it had been taken away by an enemy for the evil spirits to work upon. BECAME ILL. She soon became really ill, and was powerful medicine man in the district, who would be able to counteract the evil influence. A white man, however, persuaded her to seek medical advice at Bellingen Hospital, and there she was given an X-ray as part of a preconceived plan. The doctor assured her that had evil spirits been at work upon her the X-ray would have revealed the fact. But of evil spirits, he told her, the magic machine had found no trace. In a few days she had recovered her normal health.