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AWFUL SUPERSTITION. 33 whom they torment by their perversity. They
are the most bitter enemies of the missionaries, and this they
communicate to their children. They are here, as mothers are
everywhere, the instructors of the young. Early in life they fill
the young mind with the most foolish and debasing superstitions,
and foster, by daily example, the worst of passions." The
missionary, from whose journal we copy, says, " I am convinced that
the first efficient movement, in undermining these systems of false
religion, must be in the way of female training." American females,
he thinks, should not hesitate to make the experiment of teaching
them, though it be attended with some danger to health and life. ?
Miss. Her., 1851. AWFUL SUPEBSTITION. A missionary of the London
Missionary Society, among the Cafifres in South Africa, relates the
following instance of awful cruelty, practised under the influence
of the prevalent superstition. Two children at a Kraal, at some
distance from his residence, had died quite suddenly, and their
destruction was attributed to witchcraft. After an examination of
the case, a Caffre sorceress decided that an uncle of the children,
about forty years of age, had caused their death by witchcraft. He
was thereupon seized, bound, and severely beaten. Next he was
thrown on the ground, and thongs bound round his ankles, wrists and
neck, and, with his limbs extended and his face upwards, he was
fastened to the earth, and exposed to the fierce rays of a burning
sun; a scorching fire was made at his feet, and large stones made
hot in it applied to various parts of his body. In this situation
he was found when the missionary, who had heard of the scene,
hastily arrived, in the hope of relieving the sufferer. But his
remonstrances were of no avail. The ...
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