PAPUAN NATIVE CUSTOMS
At GRISLEY STORY TOLD BY A MISSIONARY. SUPERSTITION STILL STRONG. By-Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, July 13. t The Bov; Copland King, of tho New Guinea Anglican Mission, states that sorcery Is frightfully prevalent among the natives in the island. So terrified are they by sorcerers that many of them die of sheer fright, thus enhancing the magician's reputation. Old women having the reputation of witches will, Mr King states, dig up their 6wn dead and eat a portion of the flesh, with tho object of obtaining character.
Mr King adds that after a successful head-hunting raid the flesh of the Vanquished Is pent by the victors to their friends, much after the manner Jn which civilised people send weddingcake. Cannibalism, however, is gradually giving way to civilising influences.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6870, 14 July 1909, Page 8
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