Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-17 | Page 15 | Devil in System Quite Profitable Possession

Devil in System Quite Profitable Possession BUDAPEST AP By Mal Mail to United Press Press Beelzebub Beelzebub Lucifer or orsome orsome orsome some other devil was recently very friendly to a Rumanian peasant woman named Georgia Gorgia Caltea In Indirectly Indirectly In- In directly he aused caused her to become a moderately wealthy woman Georgia lives In a small village called in the Transylvania section of ot Rumania She is a very devout woman and her neighbors are equally religious To them God and the devil are very real rea A few weeks ago Georgia began to be afflicted with a very peculiar pecullar Illness Each evening she would fall tall to the ground in awful ramps From her mouth would issue all kinds of ot horrible noises Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times she would squeal like a pig sometimes grunt like a hog some some- times mes moo like a cow and at other time imitate other barnyard animals ani ani ani- mals One Ono evening she had such a fit and neighbors sent for a doctor but the doctor labored over her without success Finally they sent for the village priest Immediately following the priests priest's arrival the woman became normal whereupon he immediately diagnosed her as all having been possessed with the devil This disease was nothing new to the villagers Once the priest had spoken they knew exactly what remedy was necessary The woman woman wom worn an an must make the forty churches pilgrimage S Immediately therefore they as assisted assisted assisted as- as her in gathering together the equipment necessary for the Journey journey journey Jour jour- ney and In a a. body they accompanied accompanied accompanied her to the local church for forthe forthe forthe the priests priest's blessing As soon as she had obtained the necessary blessing Georgia was showered with gifts of ot money and food by her neighbors neighbors because because according ac according ic- ic ac- ac cording to another hallowed custom custom cus cus- tom torn gifts bestowed on a religious pilgrim Return always to bless the donor I The whole of t the e pilgrimage was one continual ovation for Georgia Fleet footed messengers ran ahead to announce her coming at the next village Crowds awaited her ar arrival arrival arrival ar- ar rival each member of which bore borea a gift for the pilgrim I The pilgrimage continued until mass had been said for her In the necessary forty hurches hur hes Long before before before be be- fore even the twentieth had been been reached however she was weighted down with her many gifts When she finally reached home again she found that the total value of her gifts was very great