Note: First published in the journal, "The Nineteenth Century", in June, 1895, according to "The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson".

Synopsis: The author discusses a contemporary murder trial, in which a woman's friends and family killed her during an attempt to exorcise her, and compares it to beliefs of primitives, noting that the killers acted in accordance with a primitive urge to save her from demonic possession.