Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-19 | Page 5 | Zulus a Superstitious Race

ZULUS A superstitious RACE practice of witchcraft sometimes cloak for abominable crimes mr H macdonald in hia report shows how superstitious men ot zulu descent are about people were here last friday and the discussion lasting until after sundown most 0 them were compelled to sleep here he says having no food for theli entertainment I 1 hurriedly purchased two bulls which I 1 gave the chiefs knowing their superstitions I 1 did not kill the animals but allowed them to do so with the exception of azu however none of them would touch the meat they thought I 1 might have bewitched the animals ind that by partaking of the meat they would lose all influence with their people and themselves come under the in fluence of the boma it Is often discovered that witch craft has been practiced as a cloak to cover and means to commit some abominable crime A case in point tried in the lilongwe court proved that a native woman killed by a lion had been partly eaten by another na alve who was accused of impersonal ing the lion the native in question confessed freely that he had eaten ot the woman s dead body the excuse being that he had purchased from a witch doctor the native local med ico a medicine which enabled him to turn into a lion at will in other words to indulge in cannibalism in its lowest form as the mood took him london dallal telegraph