The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23

longing to the latter family had had her
soul consigned TO perdition, and, generally
speaking, there was the deuce to play at
that end of Paterson.
Justice Van Clevc inquired whether
Mrs Geiser really was "A witch. She
held up her hand sOlomnly and said: Il
swear I'm not, Judge. They say | dance
around fire and hide chicken bones in
peoples pillows to give them rheumatism,
but it's a lie. I'm not a witch and what's
more. never have been"
The Justice promised to send n police
man to try and persuade Mrs Sanford
not TO make any more trouble.
Just before the scene in the police
court the Sandfords moved out of the
basement of the Geiser house and took up
their quarters around the corner When
everything had been transferred they
moved in body upon Mrs. Geser's home
and told her that she was a personal
friend Of the devil.
You have been killing my boys, Mrs.
Sanford screamed you cursed them
and the flesh has fallen from their bones,
and there are big blotches on their skin
which they scratch and tear like little
demons You have hired an imp to choke
them, and every night he clutches them
by the throat"
At this point in the narrative Mrs.
Gcisor banged her door. But Peter Sand
ford, the boys father, then took up the
/ TRADE, and the neigh bors heard the whole
! story Some of the women crossed them
selves, but the more sensible told Sand
| ford that he was an old fool.
My little boy tore his pillow" said
| Sandford shaking his head, and when
my wife sewed it up she found in it a
| long oord of feathers wound together, a
| piece OF glass, a chicken foot and pie
| crust.
They may have the been child's play
! things. % observed a cynical neighbOr,
''Playthings!" exclaimed SANFORD.
They are the very tools Of the devil.
/ In Germany the witches weave ropes Of
/ feathers to destroy their enemies. A
| chickens foot brings a pestilencc. |
! don't know what the glass and piecrust
are. but think they bode no good.
II took the feather rope to priest and
! he wept'when he saw them, saying some
evil would come Of it. He told me to get
a tin pan, fill it full of water and have my
! children drop pinch Of salt in it two
nights running On the third night was
, to put il on the stove till 1t boiled.
! When it boiled | should see the face of
the witch or the spell would be broken.
] did as ] was told, and on the third night,
| Just as the water began to boil / looked
| around and there was Mrs. Geiser stand
| ing in the doorway glarinR at me.
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/ frightened and we paid fortune teller 80
! cents for a remedy. She came out dressed
! in d black veil, and after she had
waved a glass rod over her head three
! times and put the money in her pocket
she said Look again in the pillow and
I you will find more feather ropes and a
; lump of pork fat Never lend anything
, to a woman you know, for she is witch.
, II remembered that Mrs. Geiser had
borrowed a saucepan. Then the fortune
teller looked up in the clouds and ex-
/ claimed, turning 10 Vredenburgh, who
was ready to drop with fear: You have
a COW, also a pair Of twins. You give
milk every day to a witch Stop il or
your children will die.
'Vredenburgh and ] prayed all night,
and next morning Vredenburgh told Mrs.
, Geiser that she was a witch and could
have no more milk His twins became i'll
at once So did the COW
Peter Sanford. " said a bystander,
"you are an old stupid There aren't any
| witches
Aren't there" exclaimed SANFORD
why, the fortune teller told me herself
| that there was
Mrs Geiser ridiculed the witch story.
She IS d Woodworking woman with a
| very bright family.