NEW GUINEA SAVAGES
SORCERY STILL PREVALENT.
HORRIBLE PRACTICE INDULGED
United Press Association —Copyright SYDNEY, July 13.
The Rev. Copland King,- a New Guinea Anglican missionary, states that sorcery is frightfully prevalent. Natives are so terrified by sorcerers that many die of sheer fright, enhancing the magicians’ reputation. Old women having the reputation of witches will dig up their own dead and eat a portion of the flesh, with the object of obtaining a like character. After a successnil head-hunting raid, the flesh of the vanquished is sent to their friends, much after the manner in which civilised people send wedding cake. Cannibalism, however, is gradually giving way to civilising influences.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2553, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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110NEW GUINEA SAVAGES Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2553, 14 July 1909, Page 5
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