Deseret Evening News | 1908-07-30 | Page 4 | Human Sacrifice in Hayti

HUMAN HUlIAN SACRIFICE IN HAYTI rIA August Augut MetropolItan MagazIne There is III some somo evidence to show that human beings have hae hen heen offered os as sacrifices to 10 th the god of at the serpent In inthe the tho UnIted d St It 1 it 1 probable that such uch Instances have havo occurred Th There ro Is 18 ample proof Oat or of like horrors In Hayti A French Frenc 1 archbishop of the tho describes I it visit by one of at the tho priests to a II assembly The Tho hiatt disguised himself as 0 a negro noro and nil he thus able to mingle 0 od with the tho crowd In the obscurity out outside side Ido the sacred 1 circle After the white cock ROd white while goat haul had been slain an and 1 offered 1 up and their blood had I been sprinkled on the tho company a burl young negro CAme caine forward ann 1111 prostrated himself before tho priest ese ens still kneeling lie he made his 0 I 1 have Il a favor faor to asic 0 of the What Is It m my eon the then n 9 encouragingly Wilt thou not give us to the tho sacrIfice the goat without horns horM The Tho priestess gave a sll sign ot of assent The crowd round about separated and there wn was revealed a 11 child sItting with its feet bound The Fr Priest away In iii search of at n na In preventing the unholy rite rile hut bitt tho authorities on whom he called strangely When all on the Iho day following they arrived lit at atthe the tho place ot of they found the ot of n a sacrifice and n a feast among them the Iha boiled skull alulI of the tho child