EVIL SPIRITS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 162, 13 July 1935, Page 9

EVIL SPIRITS

KILLED BY X-RAY. BELLINGEN, (Aust.), June 29. The X-ray plant at Bellinger. Hospital was used to “cure” an a.boi iginal woman who was convinced that she was beset by malignant spirts. There is a native superstition that an enemy can place an evil spell upon a perron by taking portion of Ins or her clothing into the mountains, and !eavig it there for the devils ufer certain incantations. There had been certain disputes a. the North Coast mission station wnen the woman has been staying, and when she missed portions of her clotn i'g sh< became convinced that it had been taken away by an enemy for the evil spirits to work upon. Became 111. She soon became really ill, and told by her own people to visit a powerful medicine man in the district, who would bo able to counteract the evil influence. A white man, however, persuaded a . i to seek medical advice at Beilingen Hospital, and there she was given i X-ray as part of a preconceived plan. The doctor asured her that had evil spirits been at work upon her the X ray would have revealed the fact. But of evi| spirits, he told her, the magic machine had found no trace. In a few days she had recovered hei normal health.