The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-14

FMRl transportation. especially
HEell now that aeroplanes monop
lM1 olize the airways and be
cause the automobile is much
70 be preferred. The emotional Celtic
mechanic in Massachusetts,, who In
voksd the law 70 free himself from
the thrall OF a woman, working a
witch spell on him from Pennsyl
vania, was not laboring under de
lusion. according to some OF the best
authorities on the subject. He was,
indeed, bewitched. just as much 30
as the victims Of centuries ago, when
they had a discouraging custom Of
burning the fell enchantresses
Furthermore, within the last few
months a witches league" in Sar-
dinia has felt the heavy hand Of the
law; a Wisconsin spell-worker. in
court, has told with undisguised pride
that she is a witch and can wish
upon any one good or Ill; a man in
Hoboken, N J., charged with working
witchcraft and conducting a school
for instruction in the art women
being his pupils, frankly has con-
fessed he possesses supernatural pow
ers; a 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
malgn Of yisage, may place others
under her domination and so bend
them 10 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
called black; the second, Of directly
opposite quality, helpful but not hurt
ful, is called white; and the third,
potent as well to help as to hurt, is
styled gray"
And it 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 bejeweled
"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 it filled with |
terror and death. You may test its |.
baleful influence from the glance Of |
beauty and Of tragic age, 1t all de-
pends upon your psychic receptibil- |
ity," the condition Of your mind |
which leaves 1t 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, 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
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.