Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-25
A WITCH SENT TO PRISON.
The Story of the Cumming Mrs. Gabor an,
the disappearing Pork Butcher
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The Story of the CUNNING Mrs. GabOr and
the UnsMspecting Porz; Butcher
London Telegraph
The criminal tribunal of Czernowitz an i'm
portant town of the Bukovina has recently
been engaged in trying an elderly woman
named Irene Gabor for laying unlawful and
magical spells upon pork butcher and his
wife, resident in that city. It appears that
about ten weeks ago this pretended sorceress
succeeded, by performing few ingenious
sleight- of-hand tricks, in persuading the
butchers wife that she was gifted with super
natural powers, and that her dupe in
duced the butcher to consult Irene with re-
spect to his mundane and eternal future. On
being by him tremendously solicited to fore
tell coming events, she proceeded to business
by gyrating round him until he felt quite gid
dy, and then, filling bowl with water, drop
ped into it q ball of wax about as large as q
walnut, over which she muttered some words
of an unintelligible jargon. Presently, to the
worthy buther's amazement and terror, the
floating lump of wax developed into scarlet
him represented his familiar de-
mon, while the other moiety
was allotted by destiny to his guardian angel.
With this phenomenon the first part of her per-
formances terminated. Still greater surprises,
however, were in store for the spellbound
butcher. Filling second bowl to the brim,
Irene mumbled another charm over it's con-
tents when lol the water suddenly turned
blood.red. OF this ill-favored liquor the
butcher and his wife shudderingly took sip,
at Mrs. Gabors pressing instance, after which
she covered mp the bowl with piece of mus
lin. Through this diaphanous substance, up
ON which she exhorted them to fix their
gaze, her victims presently perceived black
pigeon rising ont of the crimson brew and
hutter its sable wings. She commanded them
to Cross themselves and blow upon the
ominous fowl. No sooner had they fulfilled
her behest than the pigeon few away and
vanished. Then she compelled them by awful
threats to kneel down, and striking their fore
heads against the floor, to pronounce solemn
oath that they would never reveal
to exact for her enchaments. Hav-
ing thus bound them to eternal secrecy, she
took her pick of the butchers shop, selecting
the following prosaic objects as her fee: A jar
of lard, seven couple of large sausages, two
HAMS a string of small saussges, pair of
boots, several cakes of soap and nine
forms out Of the till. Having tied
these articles up in her shawl, she
turned upon the butcher and all but petrified
him with the prophecy that he would tumble
down dead that day two months. In fear and
trembling he awaited the date fixed for his
dissolution, but having survived it without the
least physical Inconvenience he denounced
Irene Gabor to the Ozernowitz police. by
whom she was promptly arrested and consigned
to durance vile. Subsequently condemned to
q long term of imprisonment with hard labor,
this redoubtable witch will enjoy tbut scant
opportunities of bartering her spells and in
carnations against sausages andllard for sem
years to come.