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Show CRAZED BY RELIGIOUS MANIA. Entire Family In Small Swiss Village Becomes Insane. A strange case of a family suffer lng from religious mania Is reported from the Swiss village of Oftrlngen. Thero are eight grown children in the family, and recently they were converted con-verted by an itinerant preacher. Thereupon the whole family began to neglect their farm and domestic duties, du-ties, and to spend the day and night In prayer. The cattle were neglected, and would have been starved had they not been fed by the neighbors One girl named Bertha declared that she was the bride of Christ, and always al-ways went about clad in a garment of white. Strange rites, too, were practiced. prac-ticed. Once at midnight the wholo family, dressed In white clothes, assembled as-sembled around a wood pile altar In a field and burned a white calf, meanwhile mean-while dancing around the burning pile. This was called "Immolation." Then Bertha expressed a wish to be Immolated, Im-molated, and It appears that an attempt at-tempt wa6 made to crucify her. The police, however, got to know of this and arrived in time to prevc.it further fur-ther mischief. Bertha was found 111 In bed with nail wounds In her hands. She and two slaters and a brother were promptly removed to the lunatic asylum at Koenlgsfelden. |