Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24

root meaning death" and is applied to the form
of sorcery which employs corpses bones and parts
of the bodies of animals and humans, frequently
ritualy murdered babies. II is generally practiCed
by witches and sorcerers who believe it gives them
the power to change their own bodies into that Of
a cat, dog, wolf or any animal they choose.
The notorious Giles de RetZ, who turned di-
aborst after serving as field marshal for Joan of
Arc, tore open with his teeth the threats of kid
mapped infants whom he sacrificed before an altar
and went around all tours. foaming and gnash-
ing his teeth, under the hallucination that Satan
had transformed him into wolf
Children found still alive in the dungeons Of
his castle bore teeth marks similar to those which
SCARED this recent girl victim In Mexico
MADAME DE MONTESPAN, famous royal
wi courtcsan i'm the time Of Louis XIV had
similar deeaepil altar in the forest of Xincennes
before which kidnapped babes were inundated
during a Black Mass
There is another dreadful analogy in the fact
that She always went 10 the Cathedral OF Notre
Dame before engaging in these satanic orgies
Another parallel with what the good people
of Tlaxcala are convinced occurred in the modern
"wtch's house" at PanZacola may be found in the
Hungarian court records of the conviction for
Witchcraft OF Countess Elizabeth Bathori.
She habitually bathed in the blood of young
girls and infants, and believed that by doing 50
she could transform herself into enormous cat,
with power 10 pass through walls and locked
doors and bite and scratch her enemies TO death.
Precisely as in the of Sonora MatamoraS,
the Countess Bathori sadst, who always
kept girl alive, chained Soledad was chained,
continually whipped, bitten and tortured. IT was
this girl. named Iona Ujvar who appeared
chief witness against the countess, just Soledad
will be chief witness against her Nine. Were
wolf" unless new witnesses are found.
Cases of this sort still occur today, some right
here in the United States, and have spent many
years in their study. One which narrowly missed
ending in an hallucinated werewolf murder in
Volved Russian named Nastasa Filipovna.
In New York. she had fallen into the clutches
of a notorious eXpatriated British charlatan who
had been out Of England and who set up his
''hells kitchen in a studio in Washington Square.
During attempted evocation of the devil TO
which I invited a skeptical student of
magic, the handsome, partially unclad Russian
woman went completely out of control circled the
studio on all fours. leaped on the charlatan, 10
sink her sharp teeth in his throat. She was sub
dued and sent 10 a hospital. There she recovered
from her hideous mania.
In Paris, in 1888, the police arrested an alleged
Sorcercss named YVette RoStaud, against whom
the original charge was simply cruelty TO animals.
Dressed in a panther skin, accompanied by
tomtoms and African mumbo jumbo in dive on
Montmartre she tore live rabbits and puppies TO
pieces with her fingernails and teeth, in the pres
enCe of degenerate audiences
But the body of human child was afterward
dug up in the cellar of a country villa she had at
one time occupied She was sent to an asylum
for the criminally insane for lie.
Quite possibly this may be the fate in store
for the SLAYER OF panZacoa.