The Ordway new era., 1914-08-07


to be preferred. The emotional Celtic
mechanic in Massachusetts,. who In
voked the law to free himself from
the thrall OF . woman. working .
witch spell ON him from Pennsyl-
vania, was not laborins under . de-
fusion. according to some Of the best
authorities on the subject. He was.
indeed, bewitched. Just a. much 20
a. the victims of centuries ago. when
they had q 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; Wisconsin spell-worker. In
court. has told with undisguised pride
that she 10 . witch and can wish
upon any one good or i'll: . man In
Hoboken. N. j.. charged with working
witchcraft and conducting . school
for instruction in the art, women
being his pupils. frankly has con-
fsssed 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 Internationally hundreds,
OF other cases to bo uncoveri9 IN TIA
most advanced centers OF civilixatiod
black. white and gray workers Of
the spell: for psychological research.
far from shattering some Of the REQ.
ords of the past. goes toward making
them credible and to demonstrats
how . woman, be she siren Of look or
malign of visage. may place others
under her domination, and 10 band
them to her will that they are sick
or joyous according to her command.
1t IL 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 nrst powerful to
hurt but not to help. II appropriately
called black; the second. Of directly
opposite quality, helpful but not hurt
full, IL called white; and the third.
potent a. well to help a. TO hurt, IL
styled gray" H5s ~.
And 1t il the gray witch that -four
fishes today for profit, and for power.
She ID the crone dragged to court. or
the abundantly heshed 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. It all de-
ponds upon your psychic reoeptibil-
tty," tho condition Of your mind
which leaves It open to the occupa-
The revelation of hypnotism and
the study Of nervous disorders have
done much to make the witch Of the
past understandable and to show u
that, despite the boastful declarations
of supernatural power made by some
Of the commercial cult, there are Just
a. many, II not moro, Of them with u
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 1727.
By far the most remarkable case Of
modern record 10 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
homo was on . lonely mountain
in Hope township. and she was the
mother Of nve children. all Of whom
were under her mesherio influence.