Deseret Evening News | 1903-09-24 | Page 4 | Superstition in Chicago

IN It the Chicago TrIbune is III correct there thero in III nil Os much superstItion In that great reat center ne In any In the tho world itt ilL witchcraft I is ruttier too n for this me Cases COllell have come before the tho polIce nu au that the nature ot of the prevalent superstitious For In on inC woman WitS 1111 ell Cd churned by with having bewitched n a child evidence given ell en In court to the tho effect thud that the alleged lint hlll cut it II tock lock of at hair from rout the childs a lilt bit of oC cloth trout from her Jacket With h e Ingred the tue lot of through it IL hong Incantation The n result wItnesses salt mid was that the tho feet of thin bewitched began to swell In one localIty lire used to jut n a spoil elicit the tho same kind or of sorcery for tor which were burned at the tha in III New J Is brought and into something that a cow fn pius pins over oer which lions have havo ro thrust Into the nail the wax is IB set be the tire lire rhe Ito belief Is that as soon nil 1111 thu Iho hogi to melt value begin In ii afflict to cow In the tho lungs or orthe orthe the throat thront or 01 whatever part of the body that corresponds to the ot of the tho en 11 image Into Inlo thc th pius pins have been aluck He a It Is 18 said tue tho I tor or witchcraft The Chicagoans tr br collie ot of them are afraid of which witches have hao for the tho ot of sorcery nn and 1 the tho cers have to remove these front the tinder one form forna or nn an another other Is not peculiar to That CO city olty bay have man ninny forms ot of It trout various parts or of the Iho gibo by the tho Vj III e err as rr It 11 Is III In In the wide 10 I iy belief In Auth other false fits fhe fact is hunt lii III tho that faith Is declining su so Is III No NI wonder It It In iii