WITCH OF THE WOLDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12818, 18 March 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

WITCH OF THE WOLDS.

A skiuks of mysterious happenings at a lonely farmhouse in (lie Lincolnshire wolds have brought about in the neighbourhood a linn belief i'i Ine resuscitation of witchcraft. The Walk Farm, at Biubrook, in the occupation of Mr. While, is the scene of the manifestations. A short time ago, whil<! Mrs. White's maid was at work 1:1 the farmhouse kitchen, .-he felt that her back was being burned between the shoulderblades. She was not near the lire, and there was no possibility of a. spark or a. live coal reaching her. 'the girl, who firmly believes that " a witch did it," was considerably burnt, and had to be surgically treated. There is no doubt about the burn. The first suspicion of something uncanny came one morning recently, when several fowls were found in the fowlhouse with their legs broken. A watch was set at night, but, though no one came near the fowlhouse, more hens were found with broken legs next .mrrning. The next,day, when Mr. While and his family and a neighbour were at dinncr, a flowerpot on the window-sill was seen to be wildly whirling round. Mr. ..While ran to the window, but there was no one near, and there was no wind, and yet the pot was -still whizzing round. Pans jump up and down on the shelves, chairs move jerkily across the floor in broad daylight while no one ii near them, brooms dance, and household utensils move while being watched. Such arc the stories current in the village, and Mr. Whit.: confirms them.