Show belief in black magic not confined to jungle horace in ancient greece wrote entertainingly of two tao witches in the esqualine allne cemetery pliny in ancient rome wrote that laws were nere enacted against injury to crops by fascination there were the dark ages and black magic shakespeare wrote of macbeth learning his fate from witches time moved on A new world was found then came salem and pious new england witch hunters read in exodus thou not sut suf fer a witch to live rolled up their sleeves and went to work the enlightened centuries with science and education came on in the distant jungles voodoo drums beat and blood was offered in rae this men said happened only in distant places men were advancing leaving behind old super stations lons ions and tommyrot but from Potts spottsville ville pa came a story of old beliefs lingering it Is a link in witchcraft evil eyes and practices ordained by the ell forces the story Is this nineteen years ago susan told her bus band she had a feeling he would not return from work he never did he was blown to bits in an elpio slon the story grew into a super and from that into a mur der A pumpkin ball used 1 in shot guns for killing deer crashed through a window and killed sixty foury tour year earold old susan A twenty four year old taxi driver al bert Shin akey told police I 1 feel like a reborn man because I 1 ve killed her she had me hexed she sent a black cat down from the skies albert said a powwow pow wow doctor told him a chant which chas chased ed the cof away the cat had been tearing at his side but the hex lingered so one night he took care of the I 1 witch mrs had been minister I 1 ing to a boarder when the shot crashed into the room killing her the boarder and mrs s daughter amella cowered in a cor ner until daylight before calling police thus in a manner of violence in through the agea ages disposed of a witch it has hap bened before in our enlightened day drive through the hills of the pennsylvania dutch sections one comes upon trim modern barns but high on these barns are hung caba listic five pointed stars surrounded by circles swastikas and other mya mys tic signs decreed to ward off evil of course we don dont t believe in such signs the farmers will say with an embarrassed snicker they re against the evil eye the painters thought they would look nice nelson of york pa I 1 a witch ritch doctor was slain by three youths seeking a lock of his hair to end a curse kehmeyer was ac aused of putting a spell on the hess family it would appear that it strong cur rent of witch fear flows through those hills esoteric mysticism taught in the middle ages has been handed banded down in old wives tales the tales and lore were transplanted to the york valley by the settlers who came in revolutionary days keys were hung on backs to stop nose bleed strings tied to the dead had bad their powers and hairs from the head of the witch were able witch doctors appeared to release those who were hexed the doc doe tors worked without fee because there was a power and glory in it for them the long lost friend a corn coin pend luin of magic Is guarded still in many farmhouses in the penn syl sylvanita ey ivania vanta hills you do not have to seek tar far tor for a witch doctor mrs s and Rhe meyers deaths are not the only ones verma delp 21 yeara years old died at alien allen town pa of three poisons given to her as a mystic potion irving heagy of york was shot by bis his wife A witch doctor had told her that he had put the evil eye on her those things came to public attention and if such old beliefs and practices cutill seem too remote to de trotters tr to be of this age there was the unsolved murder in 1929 of benny evangelista his wife and their four children in their home at st aubin avenue his head less body wag was found in a chair of his office surrounded by the strange symbols of the cult he founded de tec tives in their investigation un covered copies of the long lost friend in several detroit homes they found evangelista s own oan bible the oldest history ol 01 the world discovered by occult science mich igan within modern times has had several cases of murders committed because the victim was accused of paving an evil ee casting spells cr weaving charms in africa the torn tom toms beat and the awful witch doctor rules the jungle tribe in haiti in the dark sf of the moon lambs and sometimes it Is said humans are sacrificed in barbaric rites and in pennsylvania michigan and even closer in detroit strange practices come to light there per slats a tie tic between the man called civilized and the one termed sav age james S pooler in the detroit free rree press |