Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-13
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rectlon OF the high priest, and after.
wards participating In the most fear
full debaucheries incidental to the "sa-
cred" rites OF Voodooism. Still the war
went against him, and the high priest
declared that nothing would save him
but the sacrifice of the goat without
horns"-the Haltien term for what the
South Sea islanders call long pig" I. e.
human sacrifice, II was obtained. in
the person Of young white girl, who
was hung up by he heels talive, but
rendered insensible by negro decOc-
ton of roots, slit open with a knife.
her blood was drunk and her flesh
boiled and eaten, amid unpriniable Or
giles. winding up In wild dance IN
which the deyotees-men and women,
spun round and round like crazy crea-
lures, tearing off every thread Of
clothes, biting their own and others
flesh, and at last falling down insensl-
Bile.
The most terrible thing about Voo-
doolsm is its stealth. Like the great
yellow snake itself II turks In hidden
places and crawls under cover, always
unseen when II strikes the fatal blow.
Poison is the usual weapon, and the
Voodoo priests are past masters in It's
use, Strange diseases afillct those who
offend the true believers" Sometimes
the victim becomes stone blind IN
single night, or goes insane without
moments warning, or suffers the tor
lures of Dantes' Inferno from some
loathsome skin disease which does not
kill but cannot be cured. Hundreds OF
well-youched for instances might be
cited. In Cape Haitien | was told pitt
full tale Of a man who had uninten-
tonally offended his nearest neighbor
an old woman, who had been his friend
for many years. Iyseemed that her pigs
had been in the habit OF everrunning
his garden, and in driving them OFF, the
man one day threw club that hit a
young porker In vital part and Killed
It, He went at once TO apologize to
his neighbor and offered to pay for the
pig. But the old woman would take
nothing saying truly it was her fault
as much az his In allowing her pigs to
trespass. Next day she brought him
pitcher of buttermilk, After drink
ing some OF II he began to act In the
strangest manner-getting down on his
hands and knees, frothing at The mouth
and trying to eat 2 IA He had been
poisoned by his ne,gi r and former
friend with some mys lous vegetable
mixture which does hIt kill bnut af-
fects the nerves In such a manner that
forever afterwards the sight of any
thing green-eyen tree, or a window
shutter OF that color-will throw him
into an sgonizing III. The doctors can
do nothlng-even the miserable old bag
who poisoned him is powerless to undo
her work; and henceforth as long as
he lives, he must be confined In room
which has none Of the fatal color about
II and affords no glimpse Of the world
outside, or go abroad only In the dark
ness OF night.
II IL we'll known that a brotherhood
of sorcerers and prisoners extends all
over Africa. Their fraternity is of the
most ancient origin and they possess
unusual knowledge concerning many
things. In particular they are acquaint-
ed with vegetable and mineral poisons,
including some drugs as yet unknown
to science. BY mesns.Qf certain .decoe-
lions they can produce In the chosen
victim insanity. paralysis, idiocy, or
slow decay OF mind and body. IN Afrl-
ca these priests Of Fetish usually act