[?]Ore "Sorcery"

[?] Two

Land Regions

EW CALEDONIA and Papua [continue to produce evidence of \ active “sorcery” of one kind or (ther. , Noumea report tells of a tribe the north-west coast of New edonia which, not long ago, was •orised by a “sorcerer” who bused a virtual dictatorship over people and was cordially hated all. towards the end of 1954 this son, to the relief of the public, it out of circulation. His skeleton l found months later, fter a laborious inquiry by the horities, three men have come ■er suspicion of possible murder, ly are alleged to have said that witch-doctor was destroyed to nge the many people who had ered at his hands, he annual report of the ritory of Papua, released on tember 27, states that 18 persons e convicted in 1953-54 for Rising sorcery. f a total of 20 convictions, 12 e for possessing sorcerer’s lements, eight for threatening i sorcery and two for procuring erson to practise sorcery.