WEIRD RITES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 30

WEIRD RITES

WOMAN WORSHIPS SUN AND MOON FIRE ENGINES CALLED A woman who stood in front of a •window in her nightdress bowing to the sound of weird music arid scattering lighted matches caused a crowd to assemble near Victoria Station in London. Six fire-engines were called by a passer-by who feared that the woman would set the building alight. The police entered the woman's flat at the junction of Victoria Street and Buckingham Palace Road and took her to St. Stephen's Hospital, Fulham. The woman is the head of a prominent business firm and lives alone in her flat. A neighbour told a reporter that she claimed to be a sun and moon worshipper, and that at certain periods at sundown she indulged in strange rites. A member of the crowd said: “The woman stood before a candle with a huge bunch of flowers in her arms. Suddenly she bent low and dropped the flowers. She stretched her arms high above her head and then made another deep bow. "She started striking matches, which she threw about her and then danced, and we heard weird and mysterious music played on a gramophone.”