Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — The Sleeper’s Answer. [ARTICLE]

The Sleeper’s Answer.

There is a choice recipe ir. which the owl figures “to make any one that sleepeti\ answer to whatso-ver thou ask” {fiVTOln “Physlck for the Poor,” published in London in 1657, says “All the Year Bound.” It says’you are to “fake the heart of an owl and his left leg and put that upon the breast of one that sleepeth, and they' 1 shall reveal whatsoever thou shalt ask them;*- The Hindus, however, declare that'the flesh and blood of owl will make a person insane who eats or drinks it. On this account men who are devoured by jealousy of a rival or hatred of an enemy come <ur- ; tively to the market and purchase an I owl." In silence they carry It home and I secretly prepare a decoction, which an accomplice will put into the food pi drink ojt the object of their malignaM, designs.