Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03

"pow-wowing represents the manifesto
ton OF good influence and witchcraft
the manifestation of EVIL influence.
Pow-wowing is an art" he said, Ito re-
lieve patient Of certain kinds of men,
tai and physical suffering, while witch
craft is always associated with secret
dark and evil influences. Witchcraft
from one organ SIN to another and may
be directed toward people, or even to-
ward their live stock"
Relating numerous instances of how
he had driven spells out of people and
cured them of ailments, one of the
strangest stories Zeller told was about
the pigs who could neither live nor
die" and the death of a woman.
This was the story of a man who
raised hogs. Another man wanted to
buy some hogs from him. but he
then on he couldn't raise hogs. The
time came when the last he had was
only one litter of n ne little pigs. They
couldn't die and they couldn't live"
Builds Pyre for Pigs.
When the perplexed farmer came to
him for help zeller said he told the
farmer to make big brush pile, and with
straw to make nine beds in the pile.
These pigs that couldn't live and
couldn't die" were carried to their beds
in the brush pile. The farmer lighted
the fire. 1t blaZed fierce!y Eight of
the pigs ran out. but the ninth stayed
in and was burning to death.
"A neighbor woman ran out" said
Zeller, crying My God! I'm in that
fire. and dropped dead" The other
eight pigs lived. said Zeller, and from
tn on the farmer had no trouble rails
he infh az
run out of the fire." Zeller explained,
the woman wouldn't have done that,
and the spell would not have been
broken"
How do you do this?" some one asked
Zeller.
Il don't know" he replied, TITS given
to me. have a son "a years old, but l
don't know whether I'll be able to teach
him."
1T makes the biggest friends the big
gest enemies" said Zeller, describing
the hex" or evil spell cast by witches.
You can get rid of typhoid fever easier
than you can it."
zeller emphasized seriously that he
never charged a cent for any of his
services to the bewitched people of his
country, nor for relieving them from
ordinary illness by 'powwowing." The
State Of Pennsylvania forbids the prac-
he had never charged for his services
and so had never been troubled by the
authorities.
The Story Of the Mules.
How he had removed the evil spell
cast by mother-in-law on a young
wife and the spell of a grandmother
on her grandchild were related by the
fiery little German. The spellbound
mules warn was weird
farmer, known as "Ben," with
two span of mules hitched to a wagon,
could not get his mules to pull on
level ground.
IT told him." said zeller, "that he
was bewitched" The mules pulled as
hard as they could and could not bulge
the load, he said. Then the farmer
went and got an ak. He was just about
to chop spoke out of rear wheel
tree nearby cried out in loud voice
Ben. don't cut!'
The spell was removed and the mules
easily pulled the wagon, Zeller said.
Cutting off spoke from the wheel,
zeller said, would have cut one of the
legs of the old man behind the tree.
but if the farmer had slashed into the
front of the wagon with his AK it
would more than likely have killed the
old man hiding behind the tree. That
old man, Zeller explained had spell
bound" the mules. but the threat of
the AK broke the spell.
One member OF the class last night
submitted to treatment for removal of
Wart from the back of his neck.
Zeller said the wart would disappear
soon. but not Immediately. He claimed
by magic and powwow to have removed
rs warts from one mans hands.