Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-20
CANNIBALIsM IN HAYTI.
Human Beings still Sacrificed at the Wild
YOudoo Dances.

human Beings sui Sacrluceu at the N1ld
VOudoo Dances
Mr.. Maurice Feldmann, a Hungarian
mechanic, employed in machine shops
at German, eight miles from Port-au-
Prince, Hayti, says the New York sun
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 Voudoo priest of German. Ac-
companied by his assistant, named
Schmidt, Feldmann made off in
the direction in which he had
heard that the sacrifice was to be per-
formed. The expedition was not devoid
of danger, for the negroes, feeling I'M
doubtedly that their butchery Of chill
dren would arouse the wrath and oppo-
sition 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 Sc
lection of their route When they
reached their destination 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 position they witnessed the
Voudoo sacrifice.
The ceremony was begun by the
burning OF aromatic plants around a
sleeping child two or three years old,
which had been put to sleep by herbs.
Papaloi stepped 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 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 revolving
sort, consisting mostly of contortions
Of the hips and the abdomen. The end
is reached when the participants be-
come so excited and exhausted that they
throw themselves In heap upon the
ground, where they roll over each other
and howl.
When the dancers had recovered they
gathered for the feast and devoured
every particle of the child. Having
finished, they gathered the bones in a
hole in the ground, buried them, and
erected wooden cross over the grave.
After the two observers had given the
cannibals 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
IS, 1890, Mr. Emile Huttinot, acting
Consul Of France at San Domingo,
stopped in a small restaurant on the
North road, only half mile from Port
au Prince. At this resort, every SUM-
day, the negroes hold Voudoo dance.
Mr.. Huttinot called for soup, but when
ii was served he found In the bottom
OF his plate the hand Of child. He
Immediately rode into town and
notified the police who search
ed the restaurant and found child's
entire body in the cooking pot. The
woman who kept the place was arrested,
but suffered only three days imprison-
meut for her offense.
The gentleman from Hayti, according
to the same paper, said that he knew
personally woman named Ulysse, liv-
ing at La Croix des Bouquese, ten miles