BITE BY MAD DOG
UNLUCKY EXPERTS WITCHCRAFT Professor E. Evans-Pritchard, an eminent anthropologist, who had been working in the Sudan, and wlio was to have delivered a paper on witchcraft in tho African section of the Anthropological Congress in London last month, was bitten by a mad dog while completing the preparation of his paper. He left immediately for the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
First news of the accident was given to the congress delegates by the Rev. Edwin W. Smith, a missionary, when he presided over the section and read Professor Evans-Pritchard's japer. "I do not know that it is altogether an alarming matter," he said. Officials of the congress had heard nothing of the details of the accident, but according to their information Professor Evans-Pritchard was in England when the accident occurred, and decided to go to the Pasteur Institute as a precaution.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)
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145BITE BY MAD DOG New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)
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