SUPERSTITION LINGERS
BELIEF IN WITHCRAFT,
TWO INCIDENTS CITED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON - , June 10. How belief in witchcraft still survives in agricultural districts is shown by two episodes oeeuring as far apart as Somersetshire and Hungary. In the (Somerset ease a farmer was bound over to keep the peace for threatening an ancient neighbour, whom he accused of easting the “evil eye. ’ ’ The Hungarian case had a more tragic ending. A farmer named Pittlik became mysteriously ill, and in a frenzy prophesied that the witch who had east the spell over him would appear in the sick room. At the exact .moment an old hag hobbled into the room. Pit tlik's family beat her to death with slicks, and Pittlik leapt from his bed, completely cured. The assailants were arrested and sentenced to long terms. They appealed to the Supreme Count, when their sentences were reduced to three months, the Court holding that the family was justified in the assumption that the woman was a witch.
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Northern Advocate, 11 June 1929, Page 5
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