The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-08-14

parts Of the world bear testi-
H mony. True, these women
GD who work magic do not use
hA a broomstick as a means OF
hiRI transportation, especially
ENgl now that aeroplanes monop-
tM1zS1 olize the Always and be-
cause the automobile is much
to be preferred The emotional Celtic
mechanic in Massachusetts, who In
voked the law to free himself from
the thrall of woman, working a
witch spell on him from Pennsyl-
vania, was not laboring under a de-
fusion, according to some Of the best
authorities on the subject. He was,
indeed, bewitched, just as much so
as the victims of centuries ago, when
they had discouraging custom of
burning the fell enchantresses.
Furthermore, within the last few
months witches league" in Sar-
dina has felt the heavy hand of the
law; a Wisconsin spell-worker, in
court, has told with undisguised pride
that she is witch and can wish
upon any one good or i'll; man in
HobokeD, N. j., charged with working
wttchcraft and conducting a school
for instruction in the art, women
being his pupils, frankly has con-
fessed he possesses supernatural pow
ers; Paris witch has indicated the
place In which the body of 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 and gray workers of
the spell; for psychological research,
far from shattering some Of the rec
ords Of the past, goes toward making
them credible and to demonstrate
how a woman, be she siren OF look or
malign OF visage, may place others
under her domination and 80 bend
them to her will that they are sick
or Joyous according to her command
1t 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
nallnd hlanl. fhn unnnnH Of Atrnntlty
opposite quality, helpful but not hurt
full, is called white; and the third,
potent as well to help as to hurt, is
styled gray"
And 1t is the gray witch tina. -four.
ishes today for profit, and for power.
She is the crone dragged to court, or
the abundantly fleshed and beieweled
"seeress" who rolls to the house of
justice In the latest model of motor.
Nor has the evil eye" been rele-
gated to that past which 1t filled with
terror and death. You may test its
baleful influence from the glance OF
beauty and Of tragic age. 1t all de-
ponds upon your psychic receptlbil-
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
of supernatural power made by some
of the commercial cult, there are just
as many, II 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
modern record is that of Mrs. Sarah
Bennett, the witch of the Adiron-
dacks," committed to the insane asy-
lum in Utica N. Y, in May last Her
home was on a lonely mountain
in Hope township, and she was the
mother of five children, all of whom
were under her mesmeric influence.