Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hostelries" in the county, Landlord Alfred Sykes drew pint after pint for inquisitive reporters from London, told them of awesome doings. "Last night the church clock turned two hours slow, which never happened before. . . . Then there was old Chipping's rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets one night. How do you explain that, young fellow-me-lads...
...located his first well at West Edmond with the aid of his partner's "doodlebug," the wildcatter's equivalent of a divining rod, which geologists scorn as witchcraft...
...British high court last week upheld the conviction of a Scotswoman charged with practicing witchcraft. To jail for nine months, technically as a violator of a 1735 law forbidding "conjuration of the devil and evil spirits," went 46-year-old Mrs. Helen Duncan, a spiritual medium...
...will. But his son got elected to the Massachusetts legislature and fathered the family's first Harvard graduate, class of 1659. (This Harvard man, Nathaniel Saltonstall, was later a judge, and with enough of the family astuteness to dodge the job of presiding over the Salem witchcraft trials...
...Bushmen held an indaba (discussion). Would not the white men disclose the killing of the giraffe? "Kill them," advised Twaitwai. Tammai and Kiree did. All night, they burned the bodies. Next morning, they took away the white men's bones and clothes as muti (magic medicine) for witchcraft. A torn khaki tunic, dropped by the wayside, led police to Twaitwai, Tammai and Kiree...