The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-20
BLACK ARI PRACISED
Mrs. Mary Miller Is Only One
of Many Thousands
IN GREATER NEW YORK
Who Believe in the HocuS-
PoCus of the Dark Ages,


following to say of the practice Of the
Black Art in New York City:
For a Weak and Dull Head.
when person has a weak head and IS
often absent-m minded, take hold of an ants
Hill, put them into bag. boil the same for
six hours in a kettle of water. Draw tbs
water into bottles and distii it n the sun
With such water wash the weak and dull
head. If the disease is very bad. battle
the patient in such water. The blood OF
asses should also be drunk
That is a sample of the magical recipes
in the book of Black Art upon which Mrs.
Mary Miller, of No. 312 East Twelfth
street. who has just been arrested for
practising medicine without license, said
that she fully reid
Everything in that book is right" she
said. 81 believe it all. There is nothing
bad there. And people pay me well for
things I do for them that have learned
from that book
Besides the recipes, some OF them out
rageDusly absurd in character. that the
book contains, there are fanny spells and
lamentations, and these are actually pro-
nounced over the sick people, and their
efficacy is thoroughly belieced in.
That actual black art is relied upon by
many thousands of people in Greater New
York, and that money is freely paid to
those who pronounce incantations and
spells, win astonish the greater part of the
public. Some, indeed. have known that
superstitious rites were observed by few
here and there, but that black art is wild
ely believed in has hardly been thought OF.
The book upon which Mrs. Miller implic-
lily relied, and with numerous other SIM
liar "healers" use as the basis Of their
lucrative business, is entitled Egyptian
Secrets; or White ind Black Art for Man
and Beast" is printed in both English
and German. For fevers. the followig is
given as an infallibe remedy:
Write upon three almond kernal the
following words, and take them three
mornings in succession:
'' Hasta, Hava, Shava-'
Then take a little camphor and make
email lozenges from it, and suspend these
from your neck. Leave them three days
and nights in that position, and remove
them at the same hour of the day that
they were fastened to your body"
AS IAN excellent way to prove whether
or not person is a witch. the following
is given:
''First-Try to obtain st. Johns roots
and one ounce Of the herb called mottp.
Write the following letters upon scrap
of paper and put to the root and herbs:
Sator. Cross of Christ mildepos.
' 'Arepo. Brow of Christ mesepos.
IS Tenet Cross of Christ habenepos.'
'+This must be sewed up in a piece Of
leather, and if you wish TO see the witch,
carry the paper with you in the houT' when
the first quarter of the moon occurs. You
will then perceive that no witch can re-
main in the same room with YOU
1t seems incredible that such things are
believed in, and that such things are prac-
t:sed, but there Is no doubt that they are
practised and believed in by many. If you
wish to fasten any person so that he can
not escape, the following is given as an IN
fallible method:
Take needle wherewith the gown from
a corpse has been sewed and put this
needle into the footprints of the person
you seek TO fasten. Never Will that per-
son be able to get away"
To be able to see in the darkest night it
is merely necessary to grease the eyes
with the blood of bat" To quench a fire
you are told to run three times around the
flames, reciting this charm:
Fire, thou hot fame.
Christ, the worthy, man rules thee.
Thou, fire, stand still.
at is my WILL
do not spread out any farther.
I'm the name of God the Father. Amen
It is the use of the charms and incanta-
tons in cases Of real sickness that lifts
the book and it's users out of the realm Of
the absurd into that OF the dangerous.
When the foot Of Lizzie Kranz was
black from gangrene, and while the gan
creme was spreading upward day by day.
Mrs Miller was collecting $3.50 visit for
waving her hands over the poor child's
leg and recsting IN German:
"Our dear Lord and Redeemer Christ
Suffered much boils and wounds,
But never had them tied or bound.
They tester not, they poster not;
Neither do they ever suppurateL"
and SO on, through lines OF gfobertsh.
Charms are given to recite over those
who suffer from lung disease. from tooth
ache from neuralgia, from any disease.
Il can cure anything. This book teaches
ne. I never studied medicine, and did not
need 70. And there are others Ike ms"
That Is what Mrs. Miller said. and she
was right in saying that there are others
ike her. The class 70 which she belongs
are widely known as sympathy healerz. "
and do a large business. which the Health
Department, since The revelations Fl the |
case % Mrs. Miller. have determined % co |
everything possible 10 break -.
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