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Show CHARMED BY "BLACK MAGIC" Englishman Made the Declaration That a Neighbor Cast a Spell Over Him. A man applied to the magistrate at Union Hal! for redress of various injuries in-juries inflicted upon him by a person, who, he said, had long held him in subjection sub-jection by the power of witchcraft. The person complained of had for some time been his opposite neighbor, and although it had been his constant study not to offend him, being well aware of the influence he possessed with the powers of darkness, yet he had, in some way or other, been so unfortunate unfortun-ate as to incur his displeasure, and severely he had suffered for it both in person and property, as the wizard had at different times destroyed his clothes, tainted his provisions, prevented pre-vented the smoke from ascending the chimneys, soured the liquor in his cellar, cel-lar, and on various occasions, when the complainant had been under the necessity of going out to business, had so fascinated his powers of vision that on his return home all his efforts to discover his own door had proved Ineffectual, and he had frequently been under the necessity of applying to his neighbors to conduct him home. London Lon-don Globe. |