Show T Town own In Fur Furore re as Devil Runs Amuck Modern Religious Madness Grips Little French Vil VII Village Village lage Driving Simple Folk Jo o Flog Gaunt Priest and Fear Evil One n nC By NEt NEA Sen Sen Ice PARIS Feb France G 23 Franco has ha I gone gono mad devil The Evil One Is 1 at lit at large larl making black black bargains with weak humans and sending foul fOil I tortures to 10 hl his victims Tl Tue e madness devil madness devil centers about aboul the little town n own of Melun and a farm near These Thue The c are arc places of pilgrimage by those thone who believe and want to 10 be frightened 1 and thrilled and those who ho dont don't believe bellev but bul want to view vew an ex extraordinary ex- ex I human uman drama In Melun there Is furore over the Abbe At the villain of o the piece Is an Un- Un Unknown un unknown known old woman AT T COURT I IN In Melun very solemnly In a acourt acourt acourt court of law Maurice an I Marcel Froger together with VIUl 10 women have o heard ac accused ac- ac accused accused of terribly beating the Abbe All the accused belong to lQ a new sect devoted to Our Lod Lady of Tears They charge the Abbe Desnoyers Is i hostile to them and has em- em employed em employed witchcraft against them To ward ore off the danger and tree free him from devils lIs they way way- waylaid 1 laid and bettt him with How flow did he lie bewitch you dc- dc de the Ule judge He had an image of wax saId one He tuck stuck pins In It 11 and we suffered In n the same parts of the body as did the Image SP R WRITE IN IX SKY lIe He Ie seat ClI flights of sparrows sparrow around aroun our chapel said another and these birds wove in air our initials and cast spells against us causing some of us to fall tall ill 11 thy By black magic said sail another he he caused of forms to spring up In our gar gar- gardens gardens dens We e touched them and got foul diseases And all the time the thc tall gaunt priest still suffering from his m- m tn juries shook his head puzzled that In the Oth century people still could believe these things The devils dc are doing even stranger stran- stran stranger stranger ger things at the farm of M id Ca Ca- Ca vl near Cahors in the department depart depart- department ment of Lot Cavaille Is 91 91 His HI wife is 86 They say that thai In July last lab lato one night a beggar wo- wo woman woman woman man asked shelter of them Fear Fear- FearIn Fearing ln In ing robbery they refused VENGEANCE GIU Sl She e spat in iut their faces and shook her lIer fist at them with Imprecations And strange things at al once began besan to occur Sacks of grain g tied to ratters rafters burst and spilled their contents Knives danced on the table lable Pails paUs Pall of water skipped from place to 10 place Doors opened of their own ol accord A cauldron of water in which a pig was to 10 bo be scalded would not boll boil until the pig butcher swore lu lustily Then it boiled furiously Witchcraft has become fashion fashionable able abe throughout the thc country as n a result of these thee cases Sorcerers arc reaping fortunes fortun's Its It's mad devil-mad tat tal France has hassone gone sone and the Evil 11 One gains fol followers fol- fol followers lowers as phenomenally One as ns the nod Piper lured rats l I m 4 e k 9 s j 44 e 7 I loc o e Ike lJ be- be below below low the ie ancient bud Irom froni hid hl Ills alleged w OIl up- up I ha conducted A I I 1 A h ht t I r- r rz z M rA ti 5 |