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idu.■A,r-Ci-lt-Jt,•V.v iyul11! F0, ob!G-N.»¥.I:;‘C-:Oj11-li-ra,i a.• (i-iA: Family -Bewitched,.H jAJ ?J Ll: • »*»•!-A ItKMAUKAUM! HTOltY TOI,I) HV A IWIOllUi -IN SOMKKSIJT COUNTY,1%0.A,»■c-•ra*■B-1,[i.1-i),t,I,r.»8,[.Jesse Miller, a farmer, living hi Green-villo township, Somerset comity, i.s ready toswear that ins hourichold is oil I let eel with uwitch, Some time njro he Found a saddle hanging on nhooli by the chimney. lie had placed it on the baluster.-?. This occurred three time?, and every member or the family nuousod solemnly clociarcc! that they lunlhot touched Hu: Huddle. Miller took it tu the woodshed and again it was displaced, He Mien removed the saddle to a saw-mill nnd splked it to a standard. .Itstays there.31 is wile was washing one. day and stopped out of the apartment for u few nuunles. Returning, she was am a seed to 11 ml the articles, which she had left in the tub, thrown about over the floor. Miller was aroused one night by terrible screams in his front yard. He bounded out of bed and rushed out and found hia daughter there alone. Sho had no knowledge ofhnwshegotthere. Every window and door in Iho honse waslocked and bolted as when the young lady went to bed. 'I'wire since si in has been spirited out of the house in broad daylight, in presence of her mother uml others. Theover the young lady is invisible to all others. She describes the witch usrosuadding un old woman,, willi hoary locks, hairy face and wearing a white cap.The Miller family ia thoroughly terrilied, as is also the entire community. Miller intends to leave the locality us soon as possible. Meanwhile he- has been in Moyer.ndule in quest of a witch doctor, to makcUieplai’o tolerable for a short iimo yet at least. lie is ilrm in his witch belief.--Pliilufklplun Tfoh'a.Twenty Years Afro
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Huntingdon Journal
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1883
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