Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1916 — USE WITCHCRAFT IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

USE WITCHCRAFT IN INDIANA

Polish Woman -In South Bend Gives Dying Infant Blood Taken From Mother. South Bend, Ind. —Witchcraft is being practiced by certain Polish persons on the West side here. At an insanity inquest it has been learned that an aged woman, giving her name as Gottlieba Borkowska, has been posing as a witch. A few daya ago when a four-months-old babe was dying in the household of Jan Bykowsky, the Borkowska woman appeared and induced the mother to give a teaspoonful of blood from the veins in her neck and feed it to the child. This, asserted the "witch,” would save the infant. The mother was charged a $3 fee, and the next day became temporarily insane. In one instance the Borkowska woman is said to have’*, scourged children to drive out the devil.