Foreign News Notes, Mar. 17, 1924

At Oggelsburen, a village in the south of Germany, a peasant noticed that his livestock suffered much from sickness, died with alarming frequency. The peasant decided that his barn was bewitched. Off he went and fetched a

"witch doctor of high repute," who danced around the barn uttering strange incantations. Still the cows and the calves and the sheep and the lambs died. A tailor from a nearby village turned up to have a look at the barn. He said he was possessed of occult powers, but after looking over the bewitched building, he...

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