NEW GUINEA.
SORCERY PREVALENT
HORRIBLE PRACTICES,
Press Association-By TeleHraph-Copv'glit! SYDNEY, July ']3.
Tho Rev. Copland King, of tho New Guinea mission, states that sorcery is frightfully prevalent, and the natives are so terrified by. sorcerers that many die of sheer fright, thus enhancing the magicians' reputations. Old women having the reputation of witches will dig up their own dead and eat a portion of the flesh with tho_ object of obtaining a character. After a successful licad-hunting raid, tho flesh of tho vanquished is sent to their 1 friends, . much after the manner iu which civilised people send wedding cake. Cannibalism, however, is gradually' giving way to civilising influences.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13954, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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109NEW GUINEA. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13954, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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