Show OF 01 virginne Vir ginny S still ti 11 fearful of witchcraft VA despite its N schools churches and other aviden evidences ea of modern enlightenment princess anno county virginin virginia just juat a few nilles miles from norfolk again Is tho the center of witchcraft belief which prevailed in a celebrated case of grace sherwood in the locality nearly years ago the recent banishment from the community of annio taylor seventy years old so bent by tile tho infirmities of age that she uses a cane to support her shaky old body reflects tile the survival of primitive credulity in modern times in addition to the large number of negroes who were ready ind willing to testify to the power or of good and evil practiced by annie taylor talor there also were white persons who had rona doam in her reputed abilities walter brown a 6 small former of the county salil said the woman had killed tits lila mule by waving her cane over tho the an animal linal lucy brown sald said annie taylor put some roots nna and horsehair into it a yeast powder bottle and conjured her no longer could lucy make thi the good cornbread and biscuits for which she had been famed 0 C hudgena Hud gtna a wealthy farmer fanner asserted that the manta mania caused by annie taylors claims that she could bring good or bad luck had played havoc with his crew of form hands john 0 tilton former commonwealth attorney for tho the city 0 of norfolk appeared as counsel for the old woman and it was duo due to his talk that annie was not roughly handled lland led by the crowd that gathered gatli ered in tile the courtroom magistrate Altig istrate bell issued an order banishing the woman as a nuisance from from the county A boud bond of 2000 was provided by lier her husband a big longshoreman who said ills his wife was vas ft a firm believer in old fashioned remedies and liening herbs and that she might have hava advised others to use them lie he suld said ills his wife so far ns as lie ho knew had never practiced witchcraft she now Is in north carolina |