Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1911 — Styrian Peasant Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Styrian Peasant Superstition.

A law salt for libel brought by an apothecary In Pollau. In Btyrla. against a young peasant reveals an extraordinary superstition prevalent among the country people. They believe that apothecaries and doctors have the right to kill at least one man and one woman ever year In order to mahe medicines out at their bodies. An accidental movement of the apothecary at Pollan. Herr Kobermauser, when giving medicine to a boy named Pots led the latter to believe he was going to be killed He ran away, bat 'got such a fright that he fell HI. The Inhabitants believed his story and boycotted the apothecary, who was at length compelled to prosecute. Put* was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment, but his parents, who had spread the story wet* acquitted on the ground that they ted acted In good thtth.