The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
BURNT AT THE STAKE.
THE EXECUTION OF "wITCHEs DOWN IN
MEXICO.

MEXICO, May Wv lerus, the CeieDrat-
ed demonographer of the 10th century,
in his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, gave
no place in his organization of the Court
Of He'll to ambassadors from North Am
erica or Mexico England had hers, call
ed Mammon; Russia hers, Rimmon Italy
hers, Rutgin; France hers, Belphigor etc.;
but for the new republics of the North
American continent none were assigned.
Whether because they were new in the
category Of peoples or because he was dis
posed to consider US generously and kind
ly does not appear. Had he lived during
the last of the present century he might
have been less lenient. Did Paracesus
really mean it when he said, "the air is
! not so full Of flies in the summer as it is
at all times of invisible devils" Was it
SO when, during the reign of Francis l j.,
more than 100000 witches we're put to
death; or during the last century, when,
iD the Commonwealth of New England,
in single year twenty were executed
through the instigation of Cotton Mather
and his reverend associates? Is Mexico
| to-day any better or any worse off? The
reader can judge. The example set by
the Distinguished lights at Salem, Mass,
has Its followers in Mexico, although the
difference in the results may become
marked. Cotton Mather was not execut-
ed for his persecution of the old women
and children witches, while his imitators
in Mexico are likely to suffer the penal
ties of the laws of this country impose
upon murder.
WITCHES EXECUTED BY BURNING.
The following translations of the Off
cial communications to their superiorS
from the officials of the Mexican village
of Concordia, State Of S!naloa, will GER
tainly astonish tie reading public of this
day and age, as they are the government
variations of the arrest and burning of
two unfortunate creatures accused OF be-
ing witches, It is but Just to say that
the educated people of this country are
horri1ed at the occurrence, and that the
state and federal authorities have arrest
ed the guilty parties and are now trying
them for the crime Of murder. How for
innate for Cotton Mather and his fapati-
cal companions that they did not live
to-day, and in Mexico.
ORDER CT ARREST.
Superior O0nrt Of Jdc06o.
I inform your Prefecture that this af-
ternoon ordered to be arrested as witches
Joseph n. Bonilla ard Diego Lugo, who
for six months past have bewitched Sill
vester Zacar'as.
Yesterday the citizen Martin Porras, in
order to drive the devil out of his body,
gave to the bewitched three drinks of
holy water, The undersigned, in union
with the people of this place, feeling in
dignant against the witches, has ordered
that they should be arrested and burned
alive, which execution will take place at
10 o'clock tonight.
Independence and liberty!
IGNACIo CASTILLO.
To the Citizen Project Of the District,
Concordia, Jacobo, April 4, 1874.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTION.
ST. JOHN OF JAcoBo, April 10.-On
the morning of the 18th of this month the
witches, Diego Lugo and his son G. Por-
ras, were executed in the public square of
this place, having failed to cure the be-
witched Sylvester Zacarias, as they had
compromised themselves to d..
They were to have been executed on
the night OF the 9th. The execution was
ordered at 10 o'clock at night, the witch
es being placed in the center Of the bon
fire and square being formed of sixty
men, armed with Mexican knives The
place itself was then encircled, when it
was ordered that tie persons who had at
different times assisted the witches should |
light the fire, which was done immedi- |
ately.
Soon after the fire had commenced to |
blaze the witches cried out, "Mr. Judge,