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Zimbabwe: Zanu PF officials in ritual storm

Kadoma — Two Zanu PF aspiring council candidates who allegedly thought that the spilling of blood of two innocent girls would help them win in the harmonised elections are in trouble after being arrested by police. Read more here.

Zimbabwe: Prostitutes in Zimbabwe arrested after witch hoax to drum up business

TWO women paraded in court as suspected witches after being found dressed only in skin-tights outside a house in Harare’s Budiriro suburb may have been willing participants in an elaborate hoax, it has emerged. Read more here.

Virginia: Gangsters turn to sangoma’s power

The power of the gangsters relies on consulting traditional healers and for them to stay powerful, they must use muti as a protection. Read more here.

Mamba: Woman of Maamba has been gruesomely murdered in suspected ritual killing

A TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD woman of Maamba has been gruesomely murdered in what is suspected to be a ritual killing in which the victim’s private parts and part of her left breast were removed. Read more here.

New York: mom who killed 3 kids wants cut of their estate

MINEOLA, New York (AP) — Leatrice Brewer drowned her three young children in 2008 believing she was saving them from the deadly effects of voodoo. Afterward she tried to commit suicide twice, but failed. Read more here.

Zimbabwe: BUDIRIRO WITCHES TO REMAIN BEHIND BARS

High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa said he could not hear the merits of the bail appeal seeking release for Maria Moyo (30) and Chipo Chijaka (26) from Gokwe Nembudzia, as the application by the two’s legal representatives Tawanda Takaindisa was improper. Read more here.

Florida: Man killed himself to spite Olivia Newton-John, who then hired an exorcist to vanquish his spirit

Today in convoluted celebrity real estate stories, a man killed himself out of spite on Olivia Newton-John’s property in Florida, causing Rosie O’Donnell to pull out of buying the place, and forcing Newton-John to hire a Catholic exorcist to excise the poor man’s ghost from the premises. Read more here.

India: 1 killed near Sambalpur for practising ‘witchcraft’

SAMBALPUR: An old man was killed and his wife critically injured when a group of villagers allegedly attacked them at Tamperkela village, about 35 km from here, accusing the couple of practising witchcraft. A primary school teacher and another person were later arrested for the crime. Read more here.

India: Karnataka follows Maharashtra in curbing black magic; readies bill to crack down on superstition

BANGALORE: The state government has decided to wield the legislative stick to outlaw obscurantist practices in Karnataka. It will bring in legislation outlawing black magic and superstitions on the lines of the Maharashtra government ordinance. A month after the northern neighbour promulgated it, the Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman Evil and Gory Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2013 is being readied. Read more here.

South Africa: Family refuses to bury mutilated child

The family of the fourteen year old girl who was killed in a suspected ritual killing allegedly by her mother and an accomplice said they they were not going to bury the remains until all the missing parts are found. Read more here.

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