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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Horrible of Execution in Spain --The Discussion publishes a horrible instance of the degrading influence of fanaticism and ignorance among the Spanish peasantry: "A farmer of the neighborhood of Culls, district of Castellan, province of Valencia, was some years back attacked with vertigo and pains in the head, which returned regularly at intervals of a month. His wife and three daughters did all they could to relieve him, but in vain. At last, a pretended sorcerer who called at the house made the woman believe that the man was possessed by a devil, and that he would never be well as long as the field lived. Accordingly, a few nights back, she and her three daughters, who shared her belief, attacked the man with hatchets as he was in bed asleep, and did not leave off until he was not only dead but literally out to pieces. The next morning the woman went to the parish priest, and related that she and her girls had killed the demon who had so long effected her husband. The