Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1916, Page 26

_ J——— S eh Sea—— e} Yl b Yave CanPOlse 9 Tuoie < M T Mr. Hereward Carrington. By Hereward Carrington The Distinguished Authority cn Psychlc Phenomena and Co-Author, with Charles Goddard of “THE MY§- TERIES OF MYRA,” the Impr New Moying Plcture Drama D with the Occult Forces for Good and Evil, hou shalt not.uufler a witch to live.” Exodus, Chapter zxii,, vs, 18. 0O witches continue to, exist? D‘ We are accustomed to think of witches as being out of date two or fmaginary beings who existed three hundred years ago in the minds of the eredulous and superstitious public It may come as a ghock therefore 1o learn that our laws against witcheraft #iill exist in srveral States, and that only the other day Mra, Sadie 8. Darling, of Newark, N. J, was arrested under the stalute covering witcheraft—that is, she wan virtually accused of being a witch, Mra. Darling, who is a medium and pestor of the First Progressive Spiritual Church, No, 67 Halsey street, Nowark, when arrested under the Witcheraft Law for “pretending to exercise or use con- juration, oceult and crafty science” to mis- jead or defraud ignorant persons, sald: “If | am & witch why don’t they hang or burn me as they did fn the old days? They are threatening to fine me $50. Am I a witeh? Do people continue to helleve in witcheraft? Our laws seem to show that they do." Mrs. Darling herself does not consider that she ig a witeh by any means, but only a medium, having remarkable psychie powers. Her particular gift or phase is “paychometry”—that {g, the abllity to handle certain objects belonging to dif ferent people, and from these objects ro- colve Impressions relative to themselves and their lives or to “spirits” about them, ¥or instance, she asserts she can handle a lock of hair, and by feeling it tell the disposition of the person from whoge head 1t was cut, his present troubles and diffieulties, what has happened to him in the near past and what Is likely to hap pen to him in the near future. She aleo has other psychie powers, but claims that all of these are used for good and helpful purposes, which are exactly contrary to the harmful practises of the older witch- craft The “Basis of Truth” in the Old Witcheraft. It 1% true there is a certain connection hetween the newer and the older witch or Apart from ita follies and the purely imaginary incidents connected in the titlous minds of those days with t practises, there doubtless ex fsted a substratum or basis of real psychie facts upon which the witcheraft practises were founded, Witcheraft had fts facts as well as its follles, Where there is 50 much smoke, there must be some fire. A brief comparison of the noger and the older forms will, however, mn‘r- clear the difference bet n them In those days witches were supposed to possess extraordinary powers for evil to bewltch women and children, and aven cows and flocks, by casting an evil upon them or throwing a spell over " This power was supposed to be ferived from the devil himself. Their powers were all for evil Onee every year a grand meeting of | wisards was held, ealied a wbhhat This was held a night before the t of May on the top of some lons Iy mountain at & place where four roads meet. The witches were supposed to go o iahbath riding on broomsticks or smelimen on great goats which earried them with lightning speed to their des tination ) A desoription of what took one of thess Babbaths from a orary account s all the wisards and witehes o the place of rendesvous, ih forngl core by atan, having asssmad his favorite shape o, & large pokt, with & face front and & Bis haunches, takes & seat upon the and all presest wanl ay 5 # ' ] J . v ’ g t o - A - It f mark - thay pod a4 ’ his ark 15 always insens pa : By & . § and . ol " . ar wh ans \ . all &0 0 thalr pas N o . . My have i bean 0wy § with thares o pioas - wh and N . ¥ a N "o ' Dakow o Toad Thonaan slires. 4 @ ot of tha saith o anding haie Nind logs, da while 1h ars the bagpip - A pie i endawed with the fe Magic and Black Art Modern Science and Psychic Phenomena. In the remarkahle mo- tion picture serial, “THE MYSTERIES OF MYRA,"” which is now running at the leading motion picture theatres, Mr. Hereward Carring- ton and Mr. Charles Goddard have worked out legitimate and scientific lines a study of what modern science instriving to accomplish in the direction of pen- etrating the unexplained phenomena of premoni- tions, prophetic dreams, visions and communica- tions with the spirit world, and the mysteriek of life after death, This photograph shows Miss Jean Sothern as “Myra Maynard” in a psychic trance writing “spirit message.” Her hand is beine guided by Mr. Estabrook, who is, in the role of “Doctor Alden,” a scientific in vestigator of occult mys. teries. on of speech. After a while they agein dis appear into the ground. They are then served with a banquet at which all man ner of disgusting things are served and groadily devoured by the demons and witehe Dancing and all manner of orgles fAoish the night, until the co wi when all disappear and the Hab bath s ended Thera dineva ¢ i ' . Al per ree and oo considersd witches were vory similar to men and women who today would all mediums, that is beings possessed of powers of wo t-of-the-way or extraordinary Ag ) n ms of bewit {, a5 wo have sald, was by v oyo and casting a spell torm ) r mesn influence wao, appeared uncanny be . fopend A large ex A atives and \ alnmakers, witeh &4 wax fAgu . A apell ) died \ ‘ Hereward Carrington, the Authority on’ Psychic Phenomena, Explains How the Claims of Mrs. Darling, Recently Charged with Witchery in New Jersey, : Resemble the Ancient Beliefs in For ins or left ear subj T T ‘ ‘ - v . - reans Bt The Witch's Sabbath,"—From the Famous Old Mid ance, he ote, with would feel the prick cal body at precise Do ‘ ally known reacted o ast y th were \ ct soated six or eight feet distant, The old Puritan laws under which witches were hurned at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts, several genecrations ago, are still on the Statute Books of the State of New Jersey, although in modified form and without the death penalty. of assuming the ghapes of varions animals at will This power was known as lycan thropy. The fol/ lowing Ccase {8 typical of this, “A millaer named Bigot had some reputation for sorcery. One day when his wife rose very early to go and wash some linen not very far from thé, house, he tried to dissuade her, repeating to he several times: “Do not go there Yon will be fright ened.” Why should 1 be frightened,” an swered she. ‘I tell you, you will be frightened," he answered. Sha made nothing of these threats and departed Hardly had she taken her place at the washtub before she saw an animal mov here and o ing — there about her dle Age Wooden Print. As it was not vet daylight, she would prick its hand could not clearly make out its form at and tl he thought It was a kind of a dog Annoyed by these golngs a Sliins moments and ¢ threw at it a wooder \ " - e nox child eard the nt ysical atter utter a . X b b Was and Ab 1 4 » y . prev . €ea two drops ' ' ok 3 i » - T you & ™oy " Burning a Witch at the Stake, by Albert Kelier. Tir Omana Sunpay BEE MAGAZINE PAGE] / the witches invariably rubbed thelr bodies with a sort of pasty olntment called tha “witches’ unguent.” This was doubtless a opiate of some kind, and, ab. sorbed through the skin, had the power of inducing a sort of a drug sleep or de. lirfum in which they experienced visiona of all kinds, or dream which were col ored by the beliefs or traditions of the time. ‘The natural or rational explana tion of most of these withcraft phen omena, Is thus afforded by sclence, but it will be seen that there was after all some basis of fact for the belief in witch craft in that day, and that it was not all pure fmagination or imposture as many believe. The facts wera unusual and have only been explained rationally by further sclentific inquiry There is a great similarity between tha older witcheraft phenomena and the present day psychical facts. Neither of them can be explained by their own gen eration, but probably will be by the ad vances of Witcheraft ‘appeared mysterions'to the people living 300 vears science ago; oceult and psychical phenomena ap pear mysterious to us gtill. The world progresses, but the air of mystery still hangs about these mysterious manitesta tions, which been- recorded in all ages of the history have world's Modern Psychical Science and Its Purposes. Modern psychic scier while it thus semblance ain ssential detaails has certain points of re to the older witcheraft, yet fromn 1t in certain e In the first place the ohject is no longer evil—to bewltch or destroy someone else. In fact helpful advice {s nearly always sought and glve The r sds of ‘nquiry are now ally based on medieal apd ps lines. Mediums, so called ! r I uted a [ ar powers, © wha ] may he ! X od { ) Hands Show How Old You Are ¥ | ¢ ’