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SvpcrUt/ion worthy the dark a^es—It is,we acknowledge, almost incredible, that in this age ol light and knowledge an instance of such deplorable superstition as we are a-bout to relate should have occurred in this country. Lamentable and deplorable as it is, there is no doubt of the fact. The case occurred i# a town not 60 miles from Boston, and the ciicumslances, as related in a letter from a highly lespectabie individual to one of our friends, are as follows:44 A singular and disgraceful occurrence happened a short time since. A person, about ,'l years of age, died of a consumption ami was decently interred. About a fortnight after a person called on his father, anu said his other son, then in Boston, was sick with consumption, and that he was sent to procure the heart ol the deceased son to be pulverised and given the living brother to cure him. The credulity of the father caused him to assent, and the dead child was disinterred, and ins heart actually taken out and sertt for the purpose above mentioned. It is to be buped that I the powdered heart will not afford a semblance of relief. If credulity should affect to believe in its etUcacy the grave would cease to he a resting place. Statesman.
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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Maine, US
Tue, Oct 08, 1822
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