Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — SCARED BY A FIDDLE. [ARTICLE]

SCARED BY A FIDDLE.

A very amusing scene, which illustrates the superstition and ignorance of the eo'oied people on the peninsula, occurred in the kitchen of a hotel at Mitford a few nights »go, A lad had been playing a f-w tunes on an old violin, and the others had been dancing to his music in a merry mood,* Whea bed time arrived the boy bung his fiddle near a window, and all were in the act of retiring when low strains were heard to issue from the fiddle, which was untouch ed by human bands. There was at once a general stampede from the house into the snow, and the cries that the fiddle was bewitched. One colored man said if was the ghost of Samuel Mason, who was muidered a few weeks since at Milford, and another declared that he had recognized the shades of his dead father. Finally the bravest peered into the kitchen and heard the fiddlo still making the mysterious sounds, and, getting a pole, he knocked it from the nail and burned it, just as our Puritin fathers of New England pun ished witches. But none of the colored people would sleep in the house that night. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that a current of air was playing upon the violin.—Orisfield (Md) Leader.