. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . PUEBLO HUNTING FETICHES. 5. VL THE WITCHES CORNER. |HIS very year at least one witch has been offi-cially put to death in the United States, afteran official trial. Last year many witches wereexecuted, and many the year before, and manythe year before that—and so on back for centuries. Is ntthat a strange comer of our own country of which you didnot dream? I shall never forget the awe which filled mewhen, soon after coming to New Mexico, I found myselfin a land of active witchcraft. Of all the marvelous thingsin the unwri
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . PUEBLO HUNTING FETICHES. 5. VL THE WITCHES CORNER. |HIS very year at least one witch has been offi-cially put to death in the United States, afteran official trial. Last year many witches wereexecuted, and many the year before, and manythe year before that—and so on back for centuries. Is ntthat a strange comer of our own country of which you didnot dream? I shall never forget the awe which filled mewhen, soon after coming to New Mexico, I found myselfin a land of active witchcraft. Of all the marvelous thingsin the unwritten southwest, the superstitions of the na-tives impressed me most deeply. I thought to have settledin New Mexico, U. S. A.; but it seemed that I had movedinto another world and into the centuiy before last. Tohear my neighbors gravely discussing the condition of so-and-so, who had been bewitched; to have this and thatperson pointed out to me with the warning Cuidado de ella— es hruja! * to learn that an unfortunate was put to deathyesterday for being a witch—it often made me pinch my-sel
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