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Show SUPERSTITIOUS DREAD OF STRANGE CORPSE f . ; j. VIENNA, April 10. An extraordinary case of superstition has oc- curred In Hungary. A peasant living at Nosztaany died while attending the market In a neighboring town. His relatives started homeward with , the body, but were forcibly prevented from traversing the village of Iharia, the Inhabitants asserting that the passage of a strange corpse through the place would lead to misfortune. Reinforced by gens-d'armes the relatives made a second attempt to pass through the village, but .were confronted by the entire .population, armed with pitchforks and similar weapons. The gens-d'armes were driven back by the villagers and thereupon fired a volley at the crowd of men, women and children, killing two persons and wounding many others. - j |