BELIEF IN SORCERY
STRANGE CASE IN FRANCE OLD MAN SEVERELY FLOGGED. COURT RESERVES JUDGMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Dec. 7. A strange case, proving the continued belief in sorcery in France, recalling the Desnoyer case last January, is being heard at Mayenne, where Auguste Guillot, a septuagenarian farmer, is suing eight neighbours for attempt to beat him to death, they believing that Guillot had power to injure their eattle. He alleges that they broke into his house and beat him with bludgeons. Next day he crawled to a neighbouring farm, but, instead of being succoured, he was again thrashed with sticks and dragged deep into a wood, where he was left to die. He was discovered, however, and taken to hospital. The accused men, in court, pleaded that Guillot was a sorcerer and put spells on themselves and their children, and made their cattle dance. The Court reserved judgment for a week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1926, Page 11
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