The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-30
AWFUL RITES.
Atrocious Practices of the Cam
nibals Of Hayti.
In Their voodoo worship They Sacrifice
Human Life and Feast Upon the
Flesh of Innocent
Children.

Children.
A Haytian refugee lately spoke OF
vocdoo alteration and of human sacri-
ices IN Hayti, not far from Port au
Prince. Another witness to the same
thing has appeared, says New York
report. Maurice Feldmann, a Hun
garian mechanic employed in machine
shops at German, eight miles from
Port au Prince, learned some time ago
that there was to be human sacrifice
not far from where he lived at $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon. 1t was to be
conducted by the papaloi or voodoo
priest of German. accompanied by his
assistant, named Schmidt, Feld1nann
made off in the direction in which he
had heard that the sacrifice was to be
performed. The expedition was not
devoid of danger, for the negroes, feel
ing undoubtedly that their butehery of
children would arouse the wrath and
+ opposition of the white inhabitants of
the island, were exceedingly careful to
carry out the atrocities in the seclusion
of uafrequented groves. The two men
were armed with heavy revolvers and
were careful in the selection of their
route. When they reached their des-
tination they climbed into the branches
of a tall tree, from which they could
plainly see all that was going on below
without being seen. From their posi-
ton they witnessed the voodoo sacrifice.
The ceremony was begun by the burn
ing of aromatic plants around sleep
ing child two or three years old, which
had been put to sleep by herbs. The
papaloi stepped up to the infant and
severed the head from the body with
one stroke of a sharp knife, and passed
the head to all present. While the
head was being passed the papaloi cut
up the body, which was thrown into a
large iron pot with some red peas, rice
and other native vegetables. During
the cooking the negroes danced round
the fire. This bamboula dance is a
native negro dance of the most revolt
ing sort, consisting mostly of contor-
tons of the hips and abdomen. The
end is reached when the participants
become so excited and exhausted that
they throw themselves on the ground,
where they wallow over each other and
howl
When the dancers had recovered
they gathered for the feast and de-
every particle of the child.
Having finished, they gathered the
bones in a hole in the ground, buried
them and erected a wooden cross over
the grave. After the two observers
had given the cannibals time enough
flnni,.
down and went back to German. The |
Haytian negroes do not always seek
scclusion for their cannibalisrn, as they
lid on this occasion. On March 1S,
$780, Emile Huttinot, acting consul of
France at San Domingo, stopped in a
mail restaurant on the north road,
,nlY half mile from Port au Prince.
At this resort every Sunday the negroes
lOid voodoo dance. Mr.. Huttinot
,allcd for soup, but when it was served
le found in the soup the hand of
,hild. He Immediately rode into town
md notified the police, who searched
he restaurant and found child's en-
ire body in the cooking pot. The wom-
N who kept the place was arrested,
,ut suffered only three days imprison-
nent for her offense.
A gentleman from Hayti said that he
new personally woman named
Jlysse, living at La Crois DIES Bouquets,
en- miles from Port au Prince, whose
even children were eaten at voodoo
anccs curing her absence by their own
grandmother and the neighbors.
That such cannibalism is well known
, the authorities is shown by this quo
alton from the official organ of the
Iaytian republic:
Olcial notice No. 2,902.-Fro m the commits
Try Of tho government az the civil courts to
&c Judge Of tho poac3 OF the precinct: Ia my
sicial notice of November IS. NO. so, asked
III to rdcr the cessation Of all vooloo dances ,
I'd suDerJtitious practices whioh attest tho
sliefil u gross and absurd religion. also
ldcd that I counted on you to suppress these
ings, which you know are condemned by
oral sense and punishable by law. Having I
armed to-day that the voodoo Dances which
ID for tine been stopped, have rec IN
enced, I order you to strictly enforce tho
W against al who abandon themselves "a L
ESQ practices. In this way you will aid in
thc true principles Of civilization n
this island.
Among other reports which have
,ached here concerning voodooism, =
imam sacrifice and cannibalisin is one =
hich says that it is q well-known fact
Port au Prince that it is unsafe for q '
srson not DESTROYS of becoming an =
to buy lamb chops" in
e public markets.