Show an essex wizard it would appear that superstition has not entirely died out in essex says the london standard in the village of sible bedingham dingham ne lives an old laborer who is popularly supposed to be a wizard recently he told a man in charge of a load of straw that he would not get far with it and a little further on the horsy an old one fell and was so injured that it had to be killed on the spot the men called upon to assist were so convinced that the horse biad been placed under the influence of the wizard that they refused to move the carcass until a slice of o f flesh had been cut from the hind quarter of the animal and burned in a bush fagot the idea being that the person who cast the spell would suffer burning in a corresponding sp part of fits body |