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BURNING OF WITCHES

INSTANCES IN ENGLAND Allusions to witchcraft were made in the Court of Appeal in London recently in the course of the hearing of the appeal by Mrs. Meurig Morris, the spiritualist medium. Lord Justice Lawrence asked if it were not possiblo that a woman might persuade herself she had psychic powers. In the old days people honestly believed that they were witches. Sergeant Sullivan: The very last time a king presided in his own court was when James tho Sixth of Scotland insisted on presiding at tho trial of jurors who were indicted for perjury for refusing to convict n witch. Lord Justice Scrutton: A man was tried for witchcraft in Cornwall forty years ago. > Sergeant Sullivan: In my own time three young men were convicted of homicide for burning a witch who refused to effect R euro. That was in 1894.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

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BURNING OF WITCHES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

BURNING OF WITCHES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)