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Show TALE OF ITALIAN WITOH. Twentieth Century Sorceress Who Has Surprised Civilized Humanity. Is It posslblo that witches still ex-1st ex-1st nnd find credulous victims to ca-zen ca-zen nnd fleece? It Is true tho voodoo womnn mny be found In tho south and tho medicine man Is not yet ex-tlnct ex-tlnct nmong the Indian tribes, yet they nro belloved to bo survivals only possibly among tho uncivilized of the negro and Indlnn peoplo, snys the Springfield Republican. Yet tho real witch with tho caldron In which she brows her mnglc philters, with her spells and curses, nro things bo whol-ly whol-ly of tho past thnt It In n shock to , read of a sorceress having been .nr- ' rested In fnlr Perugia. Purhaps tho account Is tho Invention of a nows-paper nows-paper reportor bound to produce a sensation for tho benelU of his jour-nnl. jour-nnl. However that mny bo, the story is a good ono. It sets forth, with u duo enro Tor details, tho maze of alloys In a suburb k of tho city, whore a houso whoso doors nro closed lo nil but women who seek powerful lovo potions to bring bnck the affections of lost lovers, or fatal drafts that shall properly pro-sorvo pro-sorvo faithless husbands shelters a famous sorceress. Humors having got about concern-Ing concern-Ing tho unholy rites nnd ceremonies practiced In that house, tho police. so tho Btory goes, gnln udmlttanco through a pretext, bcIzo the witch and search tho premises nnd find Its walls hung with mysterious symbols. human skulls nnd bones, heads ol various animals, strnngu weapons, tunny books or evil import, full of In-cnutntiona In-cnutntiona and spells and other aids such as witches aro supposed to uso. 0 Tho woman, who was old nnd sup-pcbCd sup-pcbCd to bo fnbulously wealthy, was seized and all her paraphernalia col-lectcd col-lectcd and convoyed away for trial and nil Perugia, and presumably Italy, Is supposed to bo in n stnto ul " susponBo until tho worst Is known. Supposing this tnto true, what would bo an adequate punishment for a witch? In tho good old times, bo much , lamented, thcro would have been but ono end posslblo, Tho witch would havo been bur.ncd nt the Btake. But In 1908 n term or Imprisonment Is probably tho worst that could happen, and that would bo a Hat ending ot tho story. But tlio days or what Is called roinnuco aro ovor. HJ |