Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-08-15
AWFUL RITES.
In Their Voodoo Worship They sacrincs
Human Life and Feast Upon the
q Flesh Of Innocent rE
Children. $40


voodoo alteration and of human sacri.
fees in Hayti, not far from Port a,
Prince. Another witness to the SAM
thing has appeared, says New Yorl.
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 a 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 voo6oo
priest Of German Accompanied by his
assistant. named Schmidt, Feldmann
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 t'l-+ their butchery 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 unfrequented 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 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 a 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 bamb oula dance is a
native negro dance of the most revolt
ing sort, consisting mostly of contor-
tions 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.
E When the dancers had recovered
they gathered for the feast and de.
voured every particle of the child.
Having finished, they gathered the
them and erected wooden cross over
the grave. After the two observers
had given the canuibals time enough
to. reach their homes they climbed
down and went back to German. The
Haytian negroes do not always seek
seclusion for their cannibalism, as they
did on this OCCASION On March 10,
1890, Emile HutEinot, acting consul of
France at San Domingo, stopped in
small restaurant on the north road,
orlv half mile from Port au Prince.
At this resort every sunday the negroes
hold a voodoo dance. Mr.. Huttinot
called for soup, but when it was served
he found in the soup the hand of a
child. He Immediately rode into town
and notified the police, who searched
! the restaurant and found q. child's en-
tire body in the cooking pot. The wom-
an who kept the place was arrested,
but suffered only three days imprison-
ment for her offense.
A gentleman from Hayti said that he
knew personally woman named
Ulysse, living ut La Crois DIES bouquets,
ten miles from Port au Prince, whose
seven children were eaten at voodoo
dances during her absence by their own
grandmother and the neighbors.
That such cnnnibalism is well known
to the authorities is shown by this quo
tation from the official organ of the
Haytian republic:
Olloial notico No. 2so2.-Fro m the commits
! snry OF tho government NJ the civil courts to
l the judges OF tho poaco Of the precinct: In my
| official notice OF November 90. No. $40, 1 asked
| YOU to crdor the cessation Of oil voodoo dances
| and super5titious practices which attest tho
| BELT in gross and oJsurd religion. also
added that counted on you to sur press these
| things, which you know nre condemned by
| moral sense nnd punishable by law Having
learned to-day that the voodoo DANCES, which
had for time been stopped, have rec I'M
munced, I order you TO strictly enforce tho
law against oil who abandon themselves ~
] those PRACTICES In this way you will aid In
estnblis ing the true principles OF civilization
| on this island
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