THE EVIL EYE.
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. A little while ago two peasants? brutally murdered an old man at Angiers because they considered he had evil eye and bewitched their cattle and made them die. The victim was a retired pork butcher named! De Necheau, 72 years .of age, while the murderers are Vquite young men, who are apparently convinced that they were dealing fairly and judiciously with, the sorcerer, who merited immediate death. ' -V
They carried out- their work witff brutal thoroughness. Having felled the old man with a heavy stick, therbbv inflicting sufficient injuries to kail him, they stabbed him through tbe heart and cut his throat so deeply as to almost sever the head from tbe body. They were determined, they said, to prevent his coming to life again. ..re The opinion of the peasantry fin the locality was entirely on the partdof the young men.
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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 13
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148THE EVIL EYE. New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 13
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