FRENCH SORCERY TRIAL
EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY An extraordinary story of credulity has been told at Bordeaux, at a so-called sorcery trial, in which a police official, a stockbroker, an orchestra conductor, and a bank clerk were found guilty of assaulting a Syrian priest, Saponnghi, and were sentenced to three months' imprisonment and fined £2O. The assault concerned a miraculous figure, called the Weeping Virgin, which is reputed to have wept real tears, by which the sick could he cured. It is alleged that Saponnghi. desiring to gain possession of this image, cast: an evil spell over its possessor, Madame Mesnin. who declared that, she had been bitten on the face by an invisible mouth, and bad been assailed by terrible suffering, so that she became homicidal. Tier friends heat Sapounghi. attempting to get his supply of blood of toads and oilier unclean animals, and a nude wax, black figure which he used in his sorceries.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 21 February 1920, Page 3
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