Show V 0 1 S M IS FAITH OF F HAITI H L A I 1 I 1 admiral knapp investigating conditions tells shocking shochin U tales of practices KILL HUN HUMANS DRINK BLOOD native fa Is strongly Supers superstitious tilous fears evil eye and stands in great awe of voodoo priests and priestesses priestesses 1 washington D C T that bm 11 P per er cent of the anthes of haiti bellevo in the african jungle falth faith of 0 voodoo doo I 1 isia in which alch requires tho S sacrifice of human beings and tile the drinking of human blood Is declared ilk by avar admiral II 11 y H knapp in tits his report to tile the ceble secretary of the ho havy on oil 0 of conditions admiral knapp cites A use case of tho the of a voodoo boodoo tir priest lesk vilio lio Is reported to havo killed 13 calill dren dien hoaf choso whoso blood ans na drunk and flesh eaten by persons present at the rites Is prevalent says sa tile adint rals report and the further ono ROCS goes from the coast const into the interior the more mord openly to is doolin depati Is 19 essentially snake worship and in its extreme rites it if requires the of human beings and the drinking of their mood blood and tile tho eating of their flesh orgies at the human sacrifice Is 19 called the tha hornless goat minor sacrifices of 0 goats tire are made These religious cele brut loaa if tile tho word religious can bo be applied to such affairs end in lla dig graceful orgies of debauchery it la Is very difficult lini cult of course lo 10 tode determine just how extensively the beliefs are held but some haitians Hait ians themselves have aster asserted ted that probably OS 05 per cent of the population believes in voodoo lp mt 9 V br or orless less ex cx af 70 T ap 1 it nry Is strongly bielk fly t for or the haftl diameter character it seems a s certain however that whether it bealie bo alio effect of or not the average haitian la Is strongly with the of the tha jungle IN he Is in afraid of tile tho evil eye ee or as it Is called li liere ore tho the lou loranga ou anga 1 and stands m in great awo awe aftic voodoo priests and priestesses s it Is also believed tile tha educated classes AKO are not free from much of tills this superstition even where cheri they deny belle belief f in or the existence of k voodoo followers Fearel Pea Ifal haitian tinn high in place will not ot take fako action against persons ne ac 1 of whether because of their own belief in it or because of fear fc ir horn born of their own knowledge of the extent exten t to which irn Is prevalent among the population or of incurring enmities A voodoo priest has beair fately tried tind and sentenced and the proceedings of tile military commission tire are now in washington awaiting ing nellon action this man in Is said to have killed tit at one time or another 13 children whose blood was ns drunk and whose flesh was eaten by persons present at tile the rites tho the pretice of similar voodoo rites Is confidently believed belter cd ty by wove those most anosi with ho fie situation in valli haiti to be not unusual in the remote places although it Is very diali cult to obtain any positive evidence la fil corroboration |