Show witchcraft PERSISTS IN PARTS OF RURAL AMERICA pennsylvania dutch virg to calef t ilef in magic power of H 4 doctors new york moil alm ier sons believe that witchcraft and 1 n rint mot super tion have hae passed american life let in many di trots nied med leui leal beliefs in voodoo aid ft alt it acry cry per in some s sections of 0 lenn syhania sy lania for example apuls cast liv pow wow men are relied upon by simple folk to cure falling fits und and other all ailment ments nc ac lording to detective Detect lie Ital ralph lill W keech of the lork ia ila police de part moot mout m who ho in an article in tl tie e the master Detec the tle magazine exposes the workings a of the hes doctor hex ilex Is german for mich itch three years ago an old man v as found murdered in his home in shrewsbury a small town a few miles outside of lork relates de teethe keech oil had ocr 0 or him an aej I 1 apparently an a at tempt had been made to conceal the crime by burning up the house although the body was horribly burned the house because aflak of lack of draft dd not bum buim down in estl gation by mr air keech notch disclosed d the tact fact that three young men had find visited the old man on the night of the crime they bere ambled armsted am bled anil and their story of the extensive I 1 diet of many persons in the community in the witchery uIt chery powers of the old roan man rocked the lie state it deel aped that the widow of a fanner farmer lind find declared that she had find been bewitched mit lied by the old nun nian and ohp bos lims went moot to secure a book bool called ifie seventh boik of moses tile poss possessor escor of lucli ll cli could cast lun ic spells the old man refused 11 if liar avi n i to ghe gise up the book and he vas as su iichi fur lua refusal the murder and the subsequent trial of lie the three permetra perpetrators per petra tors of the tile arime vh 0 were nere found guilty 0 01 en ened up an fin as ils funding atory of t the h e widespread ldes pread belle belief in witchcraft I 1 has prevailed in three syhania abla anla dalch dill ch countois count lis 8 1 ork I 1 an caster and berks for f 0 r many icara ears it Is a cummi cf c f the tile medieval german maieli brought originally fn ii holland olland li and germany by pioneers I 1 writes detective Detect li e keech it Is related to the lie ast last store of such hupf amassed in aery land from the beird elrd voodoo rites of africa and an d haiti to the medicine rne dicine man of the Amerl cin in indian and the tragic of the hindu fakirs fakiri 11 1 ibe I lie belief in the potter of po powwow to cure illness or to drie oft on bad luck still t lill persists in this see 1100 of continues mr lr keech lor kor two centuries children have sheered shii ered around fireplaces at light as they to the tales of magic told by their riders elders from rom the outskirts of lork ork fur far baik into the hill lilliq old women still mutter al strange range prayers as they lance oer their if beir left shout ders bacon they claim clain Is effee tie in curing alares when mien the right spell Is said by a pow un ow linn to ft horn the prater has been handed down objects can be found by sec see ond sight and the bernth bee beien nth th book of moses a 1 vt of quaint incan mill still to be found in man mani an ll 11 attic of the dutch A jumble of old pramis pra eis arisna alg gaj find lind oti er malc formulas probably in reduced in atie thirteenth ThIr tenth century still goes gnes the r anundi n of tle huntr country sed seI lons i J |