Crazed by a Superstitions Belief.
Madrid, July 25.-During the height of a frenzy at Torrax, Spain, created by a woman who declared the Virgin Mary had appeared to her and ordered her to preach, as the world •was near its end, a large fire was lighted into which the converts to this superstition threw their valuables, furniture and clothes, and the men, women and children danced and shouted around the fire in a state of nudity. The local gendarmerie arrived only just in time to save the infants from being thrown into the fire by frenzied mothers, and to prevent the houses of the village from being set on fire.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 5
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