TORTURED AS WITCH.
YOUNG BRIDE'S DEATH. Belief'in. witches still flourishes among some of the superstitious * peasants of Westphalia, and -the torturing to death of a newly married woman to drive out a "witch" possessing - her is reported from Haltern. Frau Martha Lands, three weeks after hdr Bfarijago, was taken*,to hospitah scovered. with wounds, from" which she ultimately "died. The woman described how a fortuneteller told her husband and his relatives that she was responsible for disease breaking out among their cattle. The fortune-teller recommended* as a remedy confinement of the young .wife in. a dark room, where the "witch" could be driven out of her body by starvation and whipping. 1 After the husband and his relatives had tortured their victim for more than a fortnight, a neighbour reported the practice to the police, who arrested all concerned, including the fgrtune-tellei^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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