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Show SUPERSTITIOUS RUSSIA. rhe Cruel Murder of a Woman Supposed to Be the "Cholera Devil." Another form which the devil a mines in Russia pretty often of &te ia that of the cholera, who, of course, ia female. In the district of Barnard the other day the peasants were determined o make short work if the "cunning one" in that odious role of his. They clubbed together and lay in wait One day they descried the spirit of evil OH Ms way to kill people with the terrible epidemic. He wa3 riding in a tarantass a sort of springlejs cart covered with canvas disguised in the form of a female. fe-male. The watchman refused to allow the tarantass to enter the village of Pras-loukha. Pras-loukha. The woman inside protected, but had to turn back. The peasants a sembled, gave chase to the tarantass, Jurrounded it and called out to the "cholera devil" to disappear. The pool woman said she was human like them selves and could not vanish miraculously, miraculous-ly, but they shouted, prayed and closed around. A few shots were heard, fol lowed by a piteous moan and then a deaf ening e bout of triumph: "Pray to God, brothers, and thank him. We have killed the cholera." The woman's uame was Kondratieff. Her corpse waa tot allowed into the villaga Loudos Telegraph. |