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Show Syrian Peasant Superstition. A law suit for libel brought by an apothecary in Pollau, in Syria, against a young peasant reveals an extraordinary extraor-dinary superstition prevalent among the country people. The believe that apothecaries and doctors have the right to kill at least one man and one woman every year in order to make medicines out of their bodies. An accidental movement of the apothecary at Pollau. Herr Kobermau-ser, Kobermau-ser, when giving medicine to a boy named Putz led the latter to believe he was going to be killed. He ran away but got such a fright that ho fell ill. The inhabitants believed his story and boycotted the apothecary, who was at length compelled to prosecute. prose-cute. Putz waa sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment, but his p&rents. who had spread the story, were ; acquitted on the ground that they had t acted In good faith. |