Show i superstitions superstition s in wales superstitions of the hie country folk ot of wales are discussed in the quarterly I 1 report of dr arthur arthu r hughes II medical health officer of the county of car marthen shire despite the tact fact that fortune telling and witchcraft are prohibited under the english law large numbers of welsh peasants bring their ailing children to the witch doctors rather than to medical practitioners one fetish bat that appeals to these superstitious people Is that a witch doctor can cure a child of backwardness by means ot 0 making a slight incision in the cartilage ot of the childs ear the operation must be performed during the waxing of the moon and the art Is handed banded down from generation to generation the doctor usually being a oman it if a cure does not result the operation Is repeated until the child Is cured it Is said that many women practice this art and that the I 1 people pay large sums to have dull children so BO treated treated brooklyn eagle |