| Show the human sacrifice A Nih isper was wag repeated from frac to spectator that a goat without horns a alte white child was m as to be sacrificed presently a lovely little white girl of six elx bents was brought in bound hand and foot and fastened to the end of a rope running over a pulley in a tice top there was a iliin iii in and then at a signal up VF went nt tva child find and off fell its head at a single blow from a machete wielded Al elded by a boung negro fanatic at the moment the childs child s head fell into the basket and the maniacs began drinking its blood a young french man who had bad bibbed his way into the place with mith blackened face blip ped out into the forest and ran for the tov jovn n natives on guard who had to keep heep their tilts itts about them tilled tiled to overtake the I 1 benchman hman but he gave the alarm and forced tho the au tho titles to art apt the mother of the child had powerful backing and the next morning an official search dig lovered covered remains of the feast with the head of the child in the pot where it had been boiled for the feast of the previous night at the trial the childs child s skull was mas placed on the judges judge a bench and add ed to the general horror of the day the chief witnesses whispered the details of the crime to an eminent official and he narrated them to tho the court in cuba as ag elsewhere elbe where in the west indian countries voodoo ceremonies are invariably held in the night consist of prayers to a snake which la Is exhibited during hysterical manifestations man fe by the priest and priestess A dance Is given wl which is marked by the wildest debauch debauchery erv according to the slight blight testimony I 1 on the subject auble ct occasionally by the sacrifice of a human child |
