NEW USE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 159, 15 July 1935, Page 7

NEW USE

FOR X-RAY PLANT KILLS EVIL SPIRITS The X-Ray (plant at Beilingen Hospital “ cured” an Australian .aboriginal woman who was convinced that she was beset by malignant spirits. There is a native superstition that an enemy can (place an evil .spell upon a person by taking portion of his or her clothing into the mountains, and leaving it there for the devils, after certain incantations. There had been certain disputes at the North Coast mission station where the woman has been, staying, and when she missed of her clothing she became convinced that it had been taken away by an enemy for the evil spirits to work upon. Bacame 11l She soon became really ill, and was told by her own people to visit a powerful medicine man in the district, who would be able to counteract the evil influence. A white man, however, persuaded her to sieek medical advice at Beilingen Hospital, and there she was given an X-ray as part of a preconceived [plan. The doctor assured her that had evil spirits been at work upon her the X-ray would have revealed the fact. But of evil spirits, he told her, the magic machine had found no trace. In a few days she had reaovered her normal health.