Murder and witchcraft in Mauritius. A correspondent at Port Louis, writing of the growth of witchcraft in Mauritius, relates an extraordinary incident that occurred there about three years ago. A noted sorcerer, a black, named
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Port Louis, Mauritius (1937)
At 7 am on Monday, 21 September 1937, a stone fell on the roof of a bungalow in the rue Touraine, a street in Port Louis, a capital of the crowded little sub-tropical island of
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“The Work of a Sorcerer” “Alacisterm” writes to the Bombay Gazette:- “In reference to the correspondent of the Madras Mail regarding the mysterious shower of stones at Arcot and elsewhere, I beg to be allowed
Continue ReadingTamil Nadu, India, and Mauritius (c.1904)
Mysterious Showers of Stones At Arcot and Elsewhere. In referring to the report that a mysterious shower of stones had fallen recently at Arcot, a correspondent writes:- The falling of stones, heated and heavy, at
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