Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — A Horrible Superstition. [ARTICLE]

A Horrible Superstition.

About a month ago, while the natives of Kleln-Batanga, in the German possessions In Africa, were assembled at a dance, two (negroes sneaked Into one of the huts, stole a small child, carried her into the bush and there murdered her that they might prepare from her skin a charm against attack from leopards. The mother did not rest until she had ferreted out the murderers, and they are now very dead men. Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which sap Is stagnant remains fruitless.