TO EXORCISE 'CURSED ' BONE
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LONDON. June IG.
The Rev. T. 11. Elkington, a Missions to Seamen padre at Falmouth. will hold an exorcism ser-
vice on the cheekbone of an Australian aborigine which, it is claimed, has made the family ot another padre ill. says the Daily Mail.
A former Merchant Navy man, Jimmy Hill, brought the bone from Australia, where the wife of a man who gave the bone to Hill became seriously ill and never properly recovered. Hill gave the bone to Padre A. R. Penney, of Bristol, whose family is now ill.
Mr Elkington. who after the exorcism will burn the bone, said: -I am not afraid of the curse,
but I believe there is truth in it. “I believe a minister’s use of his good powers can overcome it.’
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Northern Advocate, 17 June 1947, Page 6
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