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Show aUN LOADED FOR A WITCH I Charge Consisted of Shillings, Wadded I With Bible Leaves. Nicholas Vaddcrrann, a retired farmer farm-er of Angora, has como Into possession posses-sion of what ho believes Is a relic of tho days when superstition and belief In witchcraft was general. This is an old flintlock musket which contained a charge evidently prepared for tho ox ccutlon of a witch. Yedderman, who devotes his (Imo to the collection of curios, purchased the musket at an auction sale held In nn old fnrmhouso rocontlj'. From Its nppearnnco tho weapon nntcdntcd the revolutionary war, and when found was In a doplor-ablo doplor-ablo state of rust. In cleaning It Vcd-demon Vcd-demon discovered thnt there was a chargo In tho gun, and this ho carefully care-fully withdrew. To his surprise, ho found Instead of bullets, two allver shillings, dated 1781, tightly wadded with leaves from n Mblo of nnclcnt print. Hencnth tho uhllllng was a small lock of hair nnd n pleco of paper containing nn Illegible quotntlon. Tho gunpowder was coarse nnd undoubtedly undoubted-ly of colonial manufacture. Veddcr-man, Veddcr-man, who has mode n study of such things, Bays It was by firing such charmed charges thnt tho superstitious supersti-tious bolloved they could scaro oft witches. Philadelphia Itccord. |