Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-07
WITCH WILL NOT DOWN
Even in This Age People Still Fear the
Power of Magic.

Witches still live, as court records
in widely separated parts of the world
bear testimony. True, these women
who work magic do not use a broom
stick as a means of transportation,
especially now that aeroplanes mono
police the airways and because the au-
tomobile is much TO be preferred. The
emotional Cello mechanic, in MaSsa-
chusetts, who invoked the law to free
himself from the thrall of a woman
working a witch's spell on him from
PENNSYLVANIA, was not laboring under
delusion, according to some of the
best authorities on the subject. he
was, indeed, betwitched, just as much
so as the victims of centuries ago,
when they had discouraging custom
of burning the fell enchantress.
1t is surprising to know that even
today among a great number of APP
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 witchcraft,
"of which the first, powerful to hurt
but not to help, is appropriately call
ed Black the second, or directly op-
posite quality, helpful but not hurt
full, is called White, and the third,
potent as well TO help as to hurt, is
styled Gray
And it is the gray witch that
ilourishes today for profit, and for
power. She is the crone dragged to
court, or the abundantly fieshed and
bejeweled "seereSS' who rolls to the
house of justice in the latest model OF
motor. Nor has the "evil eye" been
relegatcd to that past which is filled
with terror and death. You may feel
its baleful influence from the glance
of beauty and Of tragic age. 1t all
depends upon your psychic recepta-
bility," the condition of your mind
which leaves it open to the occupa-
ton of 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 declaration of su-
pernatural power made by some of the
commercial cult, there are just as
many, if not more, of them with us
today than there We're at the time
when thousands of SO-called witches
last in Great Britain and Scotland in
l722.
BY far the most remarkable case of
modern record was that of Mrs. Sarah
Bcnnette, the witch of the Adiron-
dacks," committed to the insane asy-
lum ut Utica, y. Y, in May last.
Her home was on Il lonely mountain
in Hope township. and she was the
mother of five children, all of whom
were under her meSmeric influence.
The eldest son broke away from the
thrall Il daughter died after years of
slavery to her mothers ccric moods,
anu lnltt SlIblplllS S'IS' uii''' '''
Imposed belief that they We're con-
SumptivcS. were kept in bed for II
years. until recently liberated by law.
The physicians found them still under
their mothers influence, but could
discover absolutely no trace of organic
disease.
1t WAS an unusual sight. one bitterly
cold day of the present year. when
Mrs. Margaret PiISon, of Crandon.
Wis. accused of getting $4,000 from
a crcdulUuS bachelor in payment for
Immunity prayers" rose and faced
the Judge. She WAS Il gray witch. and.
though she did not designate the col
or. she imprcssivcly admitted that Sh"
was 1t witch and could wish anyone
good or evil. She had been giving