Accused of practicing witchcraft and magic, Raelian Guide Jean Rene Ogoula Ale was arrested and jailed on February 27 in Franceville, Gabon. Read more here.
A man who claimed to be a witch doctor was arrested in Rajasthan after a 25-year-old woman accused him of raping her and then committed suicide, police said. Read more here.
Relatives of a slain Alabama toddler said the girl’s killing may have been a sacrificial ritual by her father, who is charged with capital murder in the child’s death. Read more here.
A forty-year-old man, John Friday Akpan, from Akwa Ibom State but resident in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, is now explaining to the police how he allegedly heeded the advice of a herbalist, one DrOkokon, and tagged his two children, Elisha Udobong and Esther, as witches. Read more here.
Yves Ibama was 14 years old when he was taken from his parents suddenly, after a short illness. On Buzala Avenue, in the densely populated town of Disasi where the wake is being held, everyone is uncharacteristically serene. Usually, young hoodlums heckle the adults and accuse them of being sorcerers who “eat the body of the deceased.” Read more here.
Johannesburg – Two houses were burnt down in Mabeskraal near Rustenberg during protests against muti killings, North West police said on Wednesday. Read more here.
The Goa police today apprehended two men who were allegedly trying to kill a 75-year-old woman in a human sacrifice ritual in a house at Chinchim village, 40 km south of Panaji. Read more here.
Two youths both of Makalanguzu village in Kazungula district have died from suspected witchcraft while others are now living in fear after they swindled an unknown business woman who went to buy goods from Botswana. Read more here.
Under proposed changes to Indonesia’s Criminal Code, people guilty of adultery, living together outside of wedlock or engaged in black magic could be jailed for years and receive hefty fines. Harsher sentences would promote greater “morality” in public life and punish behaviour deemed “un-Islamic”. Read more here.
The grandmother of an Entumbane High School pupil, who collapsed on Tuesday and allegedly sparked a mass hysteria among other students who sought to help her, yesterday said she was shocked by the incident and dismissed claims that her granddaughter was linked to the Satanism sect. Read more here.
