Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-02 | Page 4 | Children Educated to Become Witches

Children Educated To Become Witches i Witch children specially educated ed from babyhood to be witches have been reported by a scientist to exist among the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina These twentieth century witches are made not born says Dr Frans M. M Belgian ethnologist in a report issued by the Smithsonian Smithonian In In- In Children preferably twins selected for a career as witches are put through an initiation supposed to endow them with wilh supernatural pow pow- ers If U twins are born and their parents parents parents par par- Intend to make wi witches hes out of them Dr reports no mothers mother's milk is given them for 24 days f They are are fed with the liquid portion of corn hominy which must be given them only during the night They must be kept rigidly secluded from all visItors during the same 24 day period The twin witches even in babyhood are supposed to have remarkable p pow pow- w. w ers era The Cherokees believe they can fly through the air dive underground and walk on the suns sun's rays They can assume all kinds of human and animal animal ani ani- mal inal shapes and even when they are arc only a month old whatever they think happens The youthful witches according to are believed by the Cherokees Cherokees Che Che- to go and play with the mythical myth myth- ical kal little people although these are arc invisible to everyone else Pa Parents of the witch children j never worry worry about them no matter where they go or how long they may be absent for the children are believed believed be be- capable of ot looking after them them- selves When they are grown up sa says Dr are most annoying annoying annoy annoy- ing Individuals to the Cherokees Cherokee They always know what you think and you could not not possibly mislead them What is worse they can make you ill dejected lovesick or dying ding merely by thinking of you In that condition tion