Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-08-01
Revolving Story of Human Sscr,s
Offered in the Yoodoo Orgies in
Hayti.
Children are DeyOured by Negro.
Amid Barbaric Rites of a Re-
pulsiye Nature.
A Traveller Calling for Som Find.
in His Dish the hand of
Child.

A recent dispatch from Hayti has III.
following description of the practice !;
cannloalIsm as praeticed in that countrs
In a recent telegram mention was MAJ,
Of a voodoo alteration and OF human saDr
fees In Hayti, not tar from Port !,
Prince. The fact has since been yari6aJ
Maurice Feldmann, a Hungarian meeban;o
employed in the machine shop at GormaT
eight miles from Port au Prince, learned
some time ago that there was to be In.
man sacrifice rot far from where he lived
at 3 80 o clocE in the afternoon. II WAS
to be conducted by the Papaloi or voodoo
priest of German.
Accompanied by his assistant named
Schmidt, Feldmann made off in the direc.
ton in which he had heard that tho
sacrifice was to be performed The expedi.
ton was not devoid of danger. for the
negroes, feeling undoubtedly that their
butchery of children would arouse the
wrath and opposition of the white In.
habitants of the island, were exceedingly
careful to carry out the atrocities in tbe
seclusion of unfrequented graves. Tbo
two men were armed with heavy regolvers.
and were careful IN tne selection Of their
route. When they reached their destina.
ton they climed into the branches Of
small tree from which they could plainly
see what was going on below without be.
ing seen From their position they wit.
messed the yoodoo sacrifice
The ceremony was begun by the burning
of aromatic plants around the sleeping
child, or three years old, which had been
put TO sleep by herbs. The papaloi step
ped up to the infant and severed the head
from the body with one stroke of sharp
knife, and passed it to all present While
the head was being passed around, the pa.
paloi cut up the body, which was thrown
into q large iron pot with some red peas,
rice and other native vegetable During
the cooking the negroes danced around
the FIRE
The bamboula dance is IA native negro
dance of the most revolving sort, consisting
mostly of cOntortions of toe hips and the
abdomen. The end is reached when the
participants become so excited and exhaust
ed that they throw themselves upon the
ground. where they wallow over each other
and howl. When the dancers had re-
covered for the feast and deyoured every
particle of the child. Having finished.
they gathered the bones in a hole in the
ground. buried them. and erected a wood
cross over the grave After the two OBJ
servers had given the caEni 9als time
enough to reach their homes, they climb
ed down and went back to German.
The Haitian negros do not always seek
seclusions for their cannibalism, as they
did on this occasion. On March Is, 1890,
Mr.. Emile Huttinat acting consul OF
France at San Domingo, stopped IN
small restaurant on the north road. only
mile from Port au Prince. At this resort
every Sunday the negroes hold vood0od
day. MIR. Buttinot called for soup but
when IL was served he found in the bottom
of his plate the nand of a child. He i'm
mediately rode into town and notified the
police, who searched the restaurant and
found a child's entire body in the cooking
pot. The woman who kept the place was
arrested, but suffered only three daye I'M
prisonment for her offense.
The gentleman who gave information in
an interview of July Z, said that he knew
personally woman named Ulysse, living
at LaCrois des Bouquet, ten miles from
Port au Prince, whose seven children were
eaten at voodoo dances during her absence
by their own grand mother and the neigh
bors That such cannabalism IS well
known to the authorities is shown by this
quotation from the official organ OF the
Haytian Republic,
"Official Notice No, 2,20l-FIom the
commissary of the government at the civil
courts to the judges of the peace OF the pre-
cinct: In my official notice of November
26, No. $40, asked you to order the cess-
sation of all yoodoo dances AID superau-
tious practices which attest belief IN q
gross and absurd religion. | also added
that counted on you to suppress these
things, which you know are condemnei oy
moral sense and punishable by law. Hay
ing learned to-day that the yoodoo dances
which had for time been stopped, nave
recommended, | order you to strictly en-
force the law against all who abandon
themselves to these practices. In this way
you will aid in the establishing the 'rue
principles of civilization on this island;
Among other reports which have feach'
ed here concerning yoodooism, human
sacrifice and eAnuiba.ism, is one winch
says that it is q well known fact IN Port az
Prince that it is unsafe for a person MOI
DESTROYS Of becoming anthrophegous !"
buy lamb chops in the public market