A HORRIBLE STORY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2027, 17 September 1883, Page 2

A HORRIBLE STORY.

The Terskija Vedomosti reports & case which .shows that the superstition attributing magical power to the eating of human flesh is no*, confined to the Australian aborigmea. In the graveyard of tho villiage of Naunisow, in theNaltahik district, the police noticed that the grave of a recently huried child was* much disturbed. Suspicion fell on & man reputed to be a sorcerer. His hot was searched, and hn was found sitting at the fire, o$ which was a pot simmering. He refused to answer any questions ; but on the adjoining bedroom being examined a large portion of the? body of thei missing chUd was found hanging; from a hook, and in a corner of the room were the skulls of several, children. The wretch, upon being interrogated as to where was the remanding portion of the child's body, pointed! silently to the pot. His daughter, a. miserable, starved girl, admitted, on examination, that the father used regularly to steal tho bodiea of tittle children^ cook and eat the flash, and from the fatmake ointments and medicines, whicto he gave aa charms. He had threatened: to V.i)l and eat her if aho ever gave in-^ formation of his doings*

Gen. Bootb, of the Salvition Armjv recently seated in London that he had spent- ' within the last niue months upwards of £9000 on mueical instruments.