SORCERY TRIAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16035, 28 January 1920, Page 5

SORCERY TRIAL.

EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITT,

MIRACULOUS WEEPING VIRGIN.

LONDON, January 32. An extraordinary story of credulity has been (old at Bordeaux at a socalled sordbry trial, in which a polk* official, a stockbroker, an orchestra conductor, and a. bank clerk were found guilty of assaulting a Syrian priest, Sapoungbi, and were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and fined T2O. The assault concerned a miraculous figure, called the Weeping Virgin, which is reputed to have wept real tears, by which the sick could be cured. It Is alleged that Sapounghi, desiring to gain possession of this image, cast, an evil spell over its possessor, Madame Menin, who declared that she had lawn bitten on the face by an invisible' mouth, and had been assailed by terrible suffering, so that she became Jiomicidal. Her friends beat Sapounghi. attempting to get Ills supply of blood of toads and other unclean animals, and s. nude wax black figure which he used in , his sorceries.