BRUTAL WOMEN
OLD MAN’S APPALLING FATE SUPERSTITIOUS VILLAGERS. Received Feb. 20, 11.0 p.m. PARIS, Feb. 20. An appaling story of country folks’ superstition comes from the village of Ballots, where Auguate Guillot, aged 78, became suspected of sorcery because he did not attend mass, also because horses and sheep stampeded at sight of him. Finally he fondled a baby, which died of convulsions next day. Later he was crossing a field when the sheep stampeded. The shepherdess cudgelled him and knocked him down. Her brothers then joined in, battering him, and they left Guillot apparently dead. Next morning Guillot crawled to
another farmhouse and begged :.ttentian to his injijries, but the farmer’s wife savagely attacked him, gouging out one of his eyes with a pitchfork, smashed his nefee, and pushed the unconscious man under a hedge, where he was found three days afterwards. Guillot lingered for three months, and has just died a physical wreck.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 7
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155BRUTAL WOMEN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 7
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