Show DEADLY POWER OF dr G B kirkland former british me medical d ica I 1 officer in rhodesia is quoted as saying africa teems with magic and I 1 L as a in medical edical man cannot explain it I 1 once saw ria natives five walk through a pit of fire so hot that I 1 get wither within 12 jeet of it f jt athey came out unsigned ind and then stepped into kettles of 0 water which boiled and sizzled izz led one was vies a a woman with a baby in her arms arms adoth er was a man ma carrying a garland of flowers neither baby nor flowers we were re hurt I 1 observed three of murder b by y witchcraft 1 the handshake of death bent alit I 1 on an murder amative a native goes to the W witch ilch doctor and for a fee is given the secret powder to kill his victim merely by slinking shaking hands the vic tim has such intense faith in this magic that when afterwards 1 told it was a death handshake he dies 2 the spell of death in this case the devil doctor simply pronounces a death curse also at a fat fee I 1 have seen perfectly healthy natives dying by bv inches under this simple curse if it is amazing ami izing 3 the At stretcher of death A stretcher of green twigs Is secretly placed against the victim s door at night and aid upon touching it 11 ile he pines away and dies if for forewarned ewarner that it is at the door he be may breal break the mud walls of his hut but arid and escape doctor kirkland attributes these witchcraft fatalities to a subjective psychic force self destruction through fear M |