Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — Victims of Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Victims of Superstition.

Eighteen girls of Vasard, Translyvania, have been drowned In the River Alnta. There is a local tradition that any young woman who bathes in the river at midnight will be married before the year has expired. Twenty young women from the town, desirous of obtaining husbands,, went at the appointed time to bathe. The current was very strong and ewept the girls away, only two being saved. r