Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — CHARMED BY “BLACK MAGIC” [ARTICLE]

CHARMED BY “BLACK MAGIC”

Englishman Made the Declaration That a Neighbor Cast a Bpell Over Him. - A man applied to the magistrate at Union Hall for redress of various injuries Inflicted upon him by a person, who, he said, had long held him in sub-: jection by the power of witchcraft The person complained of had so some time been his opposite neighbor, and although It had been his constant: study not to offend him, being well aware of the influence he possessed; with the powers of darkness,yet he had, in some way or other, been so unfortunate as to incur his displeasure, and; severely he had suffered tar it both in person and property, as the wizard had at different times destroyed his. clothes, tainted his provisions, prevented the smokd from ascending the chimneys, soared the liquor In his cellar, and on various occasions, when: the complainant had been under the necessity of going out to business, had so fascinated his powers of vision that on his return home all his efforts to discover his own door had proved ineffectual, and he had frequently been under the necessity of applying to his neighbors to conduct him home. —London Globe.