Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-08-08

10 be preferred. The emotional Celtic
mechanic In Massachusetts. who in
yoked the law 10 free himself from
the thrau Of woman. working a
witch spell on him from Penusyl-
yania. was not laboring under de-
fusion, according to some OF the best
authorities on the subject. lie was
indeed, bewitched, just as much so
as the victims Of centuries ago. when
they had a discouragIug custom Of
burning the fell euchautresses.
Furthermore. within the last few
months 4 witches league" in Sar-
dina has felt the heavy hand of the
law; Wisconsin ~pel-worker, in
court. has told with 90 disguised pride
that she is witch and can wish
upon any one good or i'll: a man in
hoboken, y. j., charged with working
witchcraft and conducting school
for instruction in the art. women
being his pupils. frankly has con
fessed he possesses supernatural DOW
ers: a Paris witch has indicated the
place in which the body of a missing
man was TO be found and described
the person who slew him.
There are unquestionably hundreds
Of other cases to be uncovered in the
most advanced Centers of civilization
--black, white ard gray workers Of
the spell; for psychological research.
far from SCATTERING some of the rec
ords OF the past, goes toward making
them credible and to demonstrate
how woman, be she siren of look or
malign Of visage, may place others
under her domination and so bend
them TO her will that they are sick
or Joyous according to her command.
II is surprising to know that even
today among the great number OF ap-
parently enlightened people, the color
scheme Of witches still persists The
popular theory divides witches into
three classes observes John Brand.
in his work on sorcery and witch
craft. of which the first, powerful to
hurt but not TO help, is appropriately
called black; the second Of directly
opposite quality, helpful but not hurt
full, is called white; and the third.
potent as we'll to help as to hurt. is
styled gray"
And it is the gray witch tina. flour
ishes today for profit, and for power
She is the crone dragged to court. or
the abundantly feshed and bejeweled /.
"seeress' who rolls to the house of
justice In the latest model of motor. /
Nor has the evil eye" been rele- |
gated 10 that past which it filled with /.
terror and death You may test Its F.
baleful influence from the glance OF
beauty and of tragic age. 1t all de-
ponds upon your psychic receptibil- .
ity,' the condition of your mind .
which leaves it open to the occupa-
ton Of a will stronger than your own.
The revelation of 'hypnotism and
the study Of nervous disorders have /.
done much to make the witch Of the .
past Understandable and to show US
that, despite the boastful declarations I.
of supernatural power made by some
of the commercial cult. there are lust
as many, If not more, OF them with US .
today than there were at the time
when thousands of so-called witches
were condemned and executed. the .
last in Great Britain and Scotland be- .
ing In 1922
BY far the most remarkable case Of I,
modern record is that of Mrs. Sarah f.
Bennett. the witch Of the Adiron-
dacks," committed to the insane asy-
lum in Utica. y. Y, in May last. Her
home was on lonely mountain
in Hope township, and she was the
mother Of five children. all Of whom
were under her mesmeric influence. f