Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter. Julian's father falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make...
...crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their tom-toms. They will bring him out of the forest dead, all his fine clothes gone except for underpants torn to look like...
...lady does protest too much, to render ludicrous a scene which Eva Le Gallienne's more subdued portrayal would have made dramatic. Her manner also makes her seem too feline and too charmless to attract the trio of men that the author gathers round her. She is a witch, and not a leading lady...
...Wakambas had beaten an old woman to death. For this British justice demanded the death penalty. Their defense was childishly simple: The old woman was a witch, well known in the district. She had cast a spell over the senior wife of the Chief, a wife for whom he had paid many cows, and the expensive wife had sickened. Therefore the witch was dragged to the sick woman's hut and ordered to remove the spell...
...young men of the village took sticks, chased the witch and beat her to death, which is the accepted punishment for witches in East Africa. For this the white man's government was demanding their death. Sixty Chicago policemen sentenced to death for shooting a racketeer could not have been more puzzled. Standing in an unblinking row the tribesmen heard the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya sentence them all to be hanged by the neck until dead. The Chief Justice understood Africa as well as the law. Privately he recommended them to the Governor...