Show Y 1 t i t A i ti 4 j iV 4 1 L S 1 sl i c s t f. f furY r.- r. r a. a urY f f pv 3 r a io Mixed the Blood of Toads and Other Foul Beasts feasts u 7 is Q the iP Accusation Against a Bordeaux vS By Y C ion ifton Harby arby I Levy vy f r V f it V f i EW W o of f the recent declarations of science have bave fc Ii FEW F H 11 been more mOTe startling than that which seem i- i t to oP open en U Ut tip p again th the e whole question of witch witch- craft The declaration amounts mounts to this That a vast vast number of mental maILl maladies fes variously classi classified t tied fled today are really a form Corns of possession possess I on Science points out that these possessions are not physiological physiological not not not maladies of the body but body but butt I t mental states resulting from the actual entrance F of an evil that takes hold old of the personality Such 1 a condition a-condition can it is indicated be treated and 3 driven out M as AI the man of Ni nm eth drove out outI I rs evil eril rits i k In the tho light of such a II suggestion from the experts the witchcraft manias of the past take on a new cast They no longer longel appear as eerily a madness of ignorance even if the persecutions persecutions perse- perse might night be proved in so many cases cues to have lad had a sinister origin The witch burned at the tho stake was in a vast number of instances undoubtedly undoubtedly undo undo- edly the victim of a malady not her own but of 1 the popular mind In other instances she may quite certainly have been the victim of af a mental condition which tod today would be re regarded ded as subject sub- sub j to scientific treatment and as quite likely to yield to that treatment t Driving Out a Possession Y One commentator points out that the tho founder of Christian Science believed In tn malicious animal magnetism but the assumption th that t there is any parallel between the condition suggested by Mrs Mrs- Eddy and a possession such ex are now pointing out would probably be without justification At least tho the average peron per- per r eon on would hesitate to measure so 10 difficult a IDa mattes matter The Th great Importance e of the tho new suggestion Is IB its it bearings on tho treatment of ot the afflicted the changes it is 18 likely to bring brina in tho the attitude ten toward yard cases 1 ses and its influence influence- upon historical viewpoints int As showing that forms forma of witchcraft and of deliberate evil influence by one person upon another another an an- another other still believed in aside are quite quito from any me medical theories a number of ot recent happenings might be cited Perhaps the most spectacular is is that of Dr a physician at Borden Bordeaux ut France Fran e who had four prominent men of that cit city arrested a few weeks ago for assaulting him bim In court ourt the he four accused men admitted giving the physician a good beating and they maintained r t that at it w was s the right t thing ing to do They c charged arged v him hint with willi practising sorcery sorcery black mUg magic c and with attempting to perform miracles The doctors doctor's doctors doctor's doc doc- tors tor's victim Mme alleged Marie Mario Mesmin was called as a witness and she offered the toll following fo ilea wing ing extraordinary testimony in court t When he was in my house he be practised black magic He mixed the blood of toads and other f foul ul beasts in a acup a. cup and forced me e. e to drink it Mme Mine Mesmin became very ill in consequence this kind of treatment So tho the four represents represents- tive ive citizens of Bordeaux M. M Cardon inspector tor of police M M. Berton an an orchestra leader M. M do de Floris a broker and M. M a bank cashier waylaid id the alleged sorcerer De Floris carried carried a 8 dog whip and a piece of rubber hose loaded with lead pellets Berton was armed with witha a grooved wooden paddle and ond Inspector Cardon carried handcuffs which he be put on the prisoner after aftel which the other three men chastised him bim unmercifully They said that If if be he was possessed possessed pos as they appeared to think that kind of treatment certainly would cure him Maitre t Garcon of ot the Paris bar who appeared in court T x for the four men said the justified and it appeared to have bave been as as efficacious as e f Physician Beaten for Practicing Black ac Magic Even Even Scientists Now Regard ear the e Vict Victims of o Certain Mental Ailments as Actually I V j p that administered to alleged witches and sorcerers in olden times In view yiew of ot tho the punishments inflicted upon dealers in black magic In the past the modern modern modern mod mod- ern revival of witchcraft beliefs is all tho the moro more startling By UBy By a moderate computation nine nino millions have been burned or hanged handed as witches or wizards wiz wiz- ards since tho the establishment of Christianity L says Prof Howard Williams of St. St Johns John's College I Cambridge England Tho The figures are astounding to many of us who know little of what has happened in connection with the persecution of men and women for sorcery yet these figures can be substantiated 1 by 7 I I I 1 J r. r t t s n vt 1 ft I S v 1 t J I IA It I t A 1 J official records in all aU parts of Europe not to mention tho the persecution in New England under Puritan rule The Bible had recognized witchcraft as existing existing exist exist- ing from the earliest days and forbade the consultation consultation con con- of witches even going so far as to say Exodus 18 Thou not suffer a witch watch to live or as some translate the Hebrew Thou not support a witch But the former former for for- mer suggestion has MS been eagerly pounced upon by many believers in the Bible as the official authority au au- authority for the persecution and killing of witches That witchcraft was believed beHaved to be practised by many evilly disposed individuals was generally accepted in ancient times The origin of witchcraft witchcraft witch witch- cr craft ft is traced by some scholars to the superstitious feeling experienced by savages toward unknown powers powers' supposed to reside reide in animals birds or e even en inanimate objects The story related in tho the Old Testament of 01 Y 5 1 t 4 r S YES S SI I 1 t r f i r T h hf hj f j T r 1 J I y Jr 1 f S sh F r 4 s T t tr r k s I. I r ri 4 i k t T. T 7 q y I Ib b v Y rM x f. f n. n r P Q f 1 y d t fv r x r r 9 x l c S' S w id t 4 Y Si 4 r. r o- o An Oracle in Ancient From Gaul From the o p rr J 1 I Painting by bit E. E Vimont Sauls Saul's summoning the spirit of the prophet Samuel Sam Sam- Samuel uel as related in I. I Samuel 28 has long b been n eon considered a notable instance of witchcraft au l though many modern scholars assert that th thi th witch put it over on Saul by utilizing ventriloquism ventriloquism or simply pretending that Saul had appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap for she it is who describes the spirit as asan asan asan an old man wearing a cloak Satan as a real live personage appears In Ifs biblical literature fir first t in the book of Job dating from the second or third century B. B C. C and there he will be remembered as the one who tries Job to see whether his faith in God will withstand all the trials of suffering and loss of wealth and dear ones There is quite a long list of the driving out of demons from those possessed beginning with the healing of the dumb demoniac Matt ix 32 33 to the demoniac in the synagogue who was cured Mark i i. i 23 20 and the healing bealing of the blind and 0 r a Rubens' Rubens 1 j 4 p i Famous 1 1 t Picture 1 of the ther S 'S S r A r t Raising r. r I 11 6 of the Brazen 1 r t rt t Ser Serpent ant antI SS 1 I M for the y r 1 X Afflicted S Children G of I 44 Israel J I 7 4 4 r 7 f p o. o w dIJ rAp M S SS S r Q f ti Venture Sex Service i I 1990 I o Jt I If t jf u. u V KiJ L j 10 j r t f om 0 f. f l 1 I t. t 1 T z fl It 1 w tm o V ft ft r wI MIl 1 z W s p f l f 1 Y t. t dumb demoniac Matt wIatt ad xii xIi 22 and the driving out of the legion of devils into the swine which plunged into the sea Matt viii 28 24 and the tho curing of the demoniac child Matt 18 14 Here there can be no question of the general gen gen- eral acceptance of the idea of possession by demons of certain individuals and the exorcism of the demons by the tho power of Jesus The moderns have borrowed Hecate the goddess god god- dess less pf the infernal regions region to preside at witches witches' he meetings she is supposed to wander around at night with the souls of the dead terrifying t the e living Jiving by the apparition of herself and her ber infernal in in- Infernal In- In fernal satellites Witchcraft had gone to great lengths in Rome for finally laws were enacted against its practice and Roman matrons were condemn condemned for pois poisoning ning under the guise of incantations In the fourth century the first Christian Emperor Emperor Em Em- Constantine Constantino limited the lawful use of magic a ic to the beneficial work of nr nl rn lA storing the fruits of the earth or th the ha health ih of f the human body while all aU noxious noxious' use is made mada punishable by dea death h. h The first great persecution for witchcraft be began began be- be gan shortly after the final inal division of the Eastern and Western Empires under and Valens A. A D D. D The young and aged were dragged in chains to the tribunals of Rome and Antioch Thousands up upon n thousands suffered the extreme penalty being found guilty the moment a charge was brought brought- brought and and there were many re ready dy to bring charges of witchcraft even against the most innocent But witchcraft was not limited to Christians Germany In-Germany before th the hew faith had made mado any way there were hordes of witches and in Gaul the thc witches cs were oft often n the priestesses ses of the aboriginal faith sacrificing prisoners to their prophetic rage 4 Justin Martyr 7 Origen Jerome were convinced that th they in y were perpetual conflict con con- filet with the disappointed demons of the old mythological world who had inspired the tho oracles and usurped the worship of the true God Old Women Id Ideal aI Witches Exor Exorcism the Exorcism the Ism the magical or miraculous us ej ejection of evil spirits by a solemn form of adjuration was a universal a-universal mode of assorting the tho superior authority of the orthodox church against the spurious pretensions of heretics If the pagans had deified nature tho the Christians her And it is not ot strange that with the thc theological ideas uppermost in the early stages of Christianity Christian Christian- ity woman was was d deemed emed m most st addicted to tHe in in- in fernal practices of witchcraft Old women especially especially espe epa were selected perhaps on account of repulsive repulsive sive features malice garrulity although the fairest fairest fair- fair est cat of women were sometimes accused just because be be- of their of ot fascination cause causo powers The original meaning of ot that word ord was as magical magic 1 or ref referred to the power of tho the eye in exerting a aspell spell upon those whom it overlooked About tho the year 1400 there were wholesale p persecutions of witches in Swi Switzerland a and d. d wo we re read d of batches batchos of and ISO bel being put to death v f v v r vo i S y t i 4 V d v tJ IJ I rW r 1 f J 1 at one time th tho o secular Judges fudges finding th this the of their awful crimes The Bull BuH of Pope I VIII 1484 was undoubtedly responsible ing a still more official character to the thi theM for it went into all details details' which j possible to persecute for wit witchcraft w calamity public or private took cm c cIn In truth it has come to our ears not not immense trouble and grief to ourselves 3 5 some lome parts of Higher Germany many persons of both sexes by lie inc charms conjurations and other wicked by criminal acts and offences haythe have hay havethe the offspring of and of the lower the tho fruits of the eart earth t the e grape grape- and I. I of various plants men women am 1 animals of different kinds vineyards nj pasture land corn and other oter ve vegetable earth to perish be oppressed and uJ strayed ed that they torture men and wio we 1 t 1 11 Ma u q Y lU Wa r u u external etc 1 The Witchcraft ft of Today Then came that great with witch book book the themer t mer of Witches Malleus l all 1 the marks of witchcraft witchcraft craft were laid d wherein witch hunting hunting- was reduced to tot a. a In 1485 1486 we read of one of the t e tors burning 41 witches first shaving f search for marks It has been stated many as ns were executed in Engla EnglAn as witches and Cotton Mather states t were 19 executions of witches in New of which he had bad information j From m many ny sides and many individual as s Prof Lodge Dr Hyslop Dr Hodgso Doyle and others we learn that to their notice have convinced t tb certain individuals 1 I are possessed at r degree whereby they can do what ordina sons sons cannot do that is they can receive from the departed t- t Many of the mediums of our day clai cl clout out fear of being prosecuted by lay oz r authorities that they have familiar sp sp the v very ery sense of the Bible prohibitions prohibition Indian maidens Little Bright Ey Eyes J s Jack and a host of other spirits wh hold are aro beneficent but differ not one one the spirits accused as demons in olden i Had or Mrs l Pi Pip their in the century th the have hav been condemned as witches with she The question now presents itself itself toj t. t thinking man and woman Are W we I facia fac 1 vival of witchcraft Or are we wo upon jl of hitherto unknown human pow pow powei sol solemn mn i ii of psychical soci ti th that t we must an open mind an aning ing to accept new v fasts fa ts no matter yh wh JI corps conie Others say First we want vr whether ether these are facts or fictions is f fm m mediums mediums fooling the investigators pr or ac actually posse possessed sed of superhuman rp once ence properly applied may Ie lem Jen for whoso whose solution many millions million 1 T V r i. i t 4 I 1 t |