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Show f VOODOOISM STILL j PRACTICED IN CUBA Whito Child Slain by Two . Ncgroca Who Tried to Obtain Blood to Cure Sick Woman. HAVANA. Dec. 25. The' murder of the C-year-old white girl. Eugenia Hernandez, Hernan-dez, on November 25 at Artemlsa, in the province of Pinar Del Rio, in connection with the practico of. "voodoolsm." Is attributed at-tributed to two negroes, Joseph do In Cruz and Eugenlo Cardenas, now under nrresu , According to those who Investigated the crime, the negroes obtained the consent con-sent of tho parents to draw blood from the child's body for the purpose of curing cur-ing a sick woman named Salvndora Ar-Jona. Ar-Jona. They went through the usual weird ceremonies In tiic presence of the parents par-ents preparatory to taking the blood. Tim little girl was seized, but managed to free herself and ran lo her mother, clinging to her skirts. This waa repeated each time she saw the knife In the "wizard's" hand. The negroes then decided de-cided to wound the, girl by an explosion of powder, but the explosion proved so violent that it killed the child. |