Witchcraft

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 13, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 37.

Witchcraft.—In a recent case for assault in Colorado, it was affirmed in the court by the assaulter that the assaulted was a witch, that she had bewitched him and his family, and that the only way he could break her spell was to draw blood from her mouth; hence the assault, which in the matter of drawing blood was successful. His testimony was confirmed by others. The judge admitted this evidence against the protest of the prosecuting attorney, under the plea that "two-thirds of the people believe in such things." The prosecuting attorney, formerly Attorney-General of Colorado, said: "Is this case being tried in Colorado in the nineteenth century, or are we baiting witches in the seventeenth century? I object to this court's turning back the clock of time 200 years."