Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-04-15
AN HAWAIIAN sORCERESS.
Murders Five People In Her Court,
on the Island of Lauaii.

with a prospect ahead for the an
nexation of the Hawaiian Islands there is
very little absolute knowledge here of
the queer superstititns some of the native
islanders indulge in" said former resi-
dent of Honolulu to me the other day
in an uptown hotel. Every one in this
country has general notion that the ma
tives are superstitious, but with the alb
surd notions entertained and practices
that are permitted so far as the common
people are concerned, we have but the
faintest conception.
''Here is case in illustration. 1t
would not be matched, | think, in any
superstitions among the North American
savages. Pulolo, an old bag, was
Hawaiian sorceress, who claimed to have
supernatural powers through the aid of
a spirit, known to the natives as Kill
kina.
"She lived on the island of Lauaii and
held kind of court where she received
the natives, who resorted to her in i'm
plicit faith that she could deliver them
from evil spirits. Some of her adherents
she uniformed as soldiers.
''Pulolos famil included her husband,
her brother, her sister and their chill
dren Her family as we'll as all those
about her were kept by her in abiect
terror, and if there was the slightest
sign of 6isobedience to her wishes she
threatened to invoke the terrible power
of Kiilikina.
ut was just year ago when the
sorceress committed series of horrible
crimes for which she was sentenced to
imprisoraent for life. Pulolo was a
woman of unbridled and fieadish dispo-
sition. One afternoon she ordered two
of her soldiers to seize her husband and
hold him while she beat,
''She fairly faxed him, and afterward
gashed the soles of his feet with broken
bottles so that he was unable to walk
The sight stimulated the old hag's
brother, Hoopi, to exclaim that Puloio
was not directed by the supernatural
powers, but by her own wickedness,
whereupon Hoopi also was seized by at
PENDANTS and held while she burned him
horribly with torches, brought at her
direction from house where she had
fire built for the purpose.
by this time the woman was fairly
insane with bloodthirstiness. She turned
upon her six-year old nephew Katal-
lilii, and beat him over the head until his
mouth and nose bled, his parents stand
ing near by the while.
THE little fellow called to his parents
for help, but in vain, for they were either
too much afraid or were too superstitious
of Pulolo's power to interfere to save
him. Pulolo finally put an end to the
boys sufferings by sitting on his head
until his neck was bent over and broken.
"Pulolo then sutfocated her sister by
thrusting her head into the hot sand and
holding her there until she died.
''The last &C. of her cruelty was in di
recting her servants to hold Kahokai
who had been her assistant in her muir
ders, while she beat him to death. All
the bodies were placed together in
house which was burned and the bodies
cremated.
at was difficult to learn at the trial
the real motives of the sorceress. 1t is
understood among the native Hawaiians,
however, that Pulolo and her brother-in-
law wished to marry, and in order to ac-
complish her design Pulolo put to death
her husband and her sister, while the
other murders were perpetrated in order
to conceal this intention.
"Several men implicated with Pulolo
were convicted and sentenced to impris.
onment. ~ New York Herald.