Show WITNESS OVERTHROW OF DEVILS Crowds Flock Finck to Peculiar Church Ceremony In Spain At Al San a village of or tho the Spanish Lovant Levant tho the annual fair for driving out devils dells has just been held tens of thousands of or peasants l attend attending attendIng attending ing the weird ceremonies The little church lost In the desert desort village has hns hasan hasan an ancient chapel famous for Its facilities for extricating devils dolls from the tho human frame framo When tho the time for or the tho fair arrives the possessed flock thither In largo large numbers from all parts of or Spain This year tho the greater part of or the devil rid ridden ridden ridden den asking for relief wore epileptics and Then there a n groat number of small smaIl children afflict afflicted ed cd with St Sl Vittis dance hysteria nervousness and similar ailments Tradition at al the tho village church has hasIt hasIt It il that thal those possessed usually har bar harbor harbor barbar bor bar seven devils This multiplicity of or satans salam say sn M tho the Spaniards makes It impossible to cure euro the afflicted per por persons persons sons by b medicine since the tho fallen CalIen angels suck up every drop of or medi medicine cine that Is swallowed by tho ho sufferer Furthermore tradition has It Il that demons leave the human body boll only by b the tho finger tips Hence at the tho an annual annual annual nual fair aIr cords with slip knots wore fastened to the fingers and toes of or the possessed These wore operated by bya a monk while the exorcise was go lO goIng lOIng Ing lag on Most of the children cried bitterly though he pain caused cau ed was not necessarily great This was taken as an Indication of the tho demons un tin unwillingness willingness to leave leavo their hiding places During tho the exercises tho the possessed ones wore no clothes whatever as the demons might cling to such As Ae soon as a knot became loose and slipped from tho ho finger all witnesses sent up upa a hallelujah being convinced that ono one devil at nt least had departed his earth earthly ly I residence When all the tho fingers and toes toc wore free freo ree from cords the lie ex possessed was carried In triumph around tho the church and outside and all nil rushed to embrace and kiss him or her while congratulating tho the Individual ual on being free freo from demons and the seven deathly ulna sins |