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KILLED BY ENoHANrMENT.
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 When magicians, occultists and adopts in the black art the world over heard the other day that Stanislas de Guaita was dead, they at once, or, rather, the leaders among them, jumped at the conclusion that enchantment had killed him, or, in other words, that an evil spell had been cast over him, caus- ing him to waste away and finally die.
 Some years ago Stanislas de Guaita had bitter quarrel with Abbe Boulan, and the story goes that he determined to kill him by enehantment. During the middle ages, when person desired to get an enemy out of the way he ire quently applied for assistance to a ma gician, who, for monetary considera- ton. usually very large, would under take the unpleasant task. The weapon used was an image, made of wax or other impressionabe material, and fashioned so as to resemble as closely as possible the person about to be re- moved. The magician claimed that when pins were stuck into this image or when it was otherwise malterated, the person whom it represented would suffer in a corresponding degree and would in q short time surely die. Ma turally, images of this sort were at one time rather popular among those who ha5i enemies whom they desired to re- move.
 Abbe Boullan. however, was not to be i caught so easily. He knew deal about the black art himself, and when he heard that Guaita intended to kill him in this way he determined to prevent him. He was successful, and then he went on his way, calmly pursuing his occult studies, until finally he died peacefully in his bed, like any other re- speetable gentleman. Now. however, and this is the singular part of the story-it appears that the entertainment which was designed to work his death has ruthlessly retraced it's steps and killed it's own author, Stanislas de Guaita himself.
 This being the nineteenth century, Stanislas de Guaita, it is said. could not condescend to use such clumsy artifce as a waxen image. and. there fore, he employed the more modern engine of destruction known as the flying spirit"
 Abbe Boullan had an intuition of what was coming, and. though he had the utmost confidence in his own ability to ward off any such attacks, he neverthe- less thought it well to consult clair voyant She not only told him his sus- picions were well founded, but she also described the weapon which Guaita in tended to use against him. This weapon was a curious poison, the main ingred- ents of which were farina, meat, sacra- mental bread, mercury, animal extracts. human blood, acetate of morphine and the juice of an asp. As cholera is con- veyed from Asia to Europe through a microbe, so this poison was tol be con veyed into Abbe Boullan's body through the spirit of some dead person, which Guaita would summon from the neither world for that purpose.
 Abbe Boullan knew that tAss was q deadly poison, and, therefore, in order to avert it, he donned his saeerdotal robes, set up an altar in his room and spent day and night in appealing for aid to Melehisedee and all other invisible ones whose assistance might prove beneficial to him. The struggle lasted for months, and terrible it was. When it was over the abbe's health was shat tered, but he cared not, for he knew that he had prevailed in the fight.
 From that day forth he bade defiance to Guaita and his poison. He died in Lyons in January, 1893, of heart dis ease.
 The abbe had escaped, but the abom- inable poison was not to be cheated in this way. The flying spirit who bore it had been commissioned to lodge it in the vital part of a victim, and this command could not be ignored. Since, then, the abbe had proved invulnerable, there was only one logical course for the messenger of death to pursue, and that was to lodge the poison in the body of it's master, stanslas de Guaita.
 As long as the abbe lived Guaita had no ground for fear. as he could always assume that the poison was working slowly, but when the abbe died a peace i ful, natural death he had good cause 1 for fear. as he knew that sooner or later the flying spirit would surely come back and kill him. We are not told whether he made any efforts to save l himself: indeed, the closing days of his life seem to be shrouded in mystery. l IN. Y. Herald