Accusations of sorcery put children at tremendous risk of discrimination or retribution. Although it is against Congolese law to accuse a child of sorcery, children like Josiane face such claims. UNICEF, government and NGO partners are working to protect children accused of witchcraft and to change cultural behaviour that puts these children at risk. Read more here.
A witch-doctor who murdered a farmer and cooked his genitals has been declared insane by a court in South Africa. Read more here.
GOVERNMENT says it is inhuman, illegal and intolerable for people to burn to death an elderly couple on suspicion of witchcraft and that the culprits must be punished. Read more here
The witch doctor, popularly known as Professor Maji Marefu had threatened that whoever was responsible for the crime will find the stomach swollen to an extent of not being able to eat anything by five in the evening on Tuesday. Read more here.
Graham Allen Robertson prepared CDs of illicit images after break-up. But court heard they were posted by a friend who found them in his house. Male witch said he only made CDs as ‘cathartic ritual’ and did not send them. Read more here.
The academy, according to information on its web site, offers affordable training, which includes coverage in the “Path of Wicca,” Starlight Vision Series, Herbal Intensive Series, tarot and pendulum use and many other elements important to the practice of Wicca. The educational facility claims to be the first of its kind in New York City. Read more here.
The police had paraded the student, Kunle Arelepo and an alleged accomplice, Oluwaseun Komolafe, both ND II students of Crown Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti; a security guard with the institution, Mr Seyi Adanbioje; a proprietor of a nursery and primary school in Ado-Ekiti, who allegedly raped an 11-year-old pupil of his school, Mr Babatope Ibitoye and a 17-year-old boy, who allegedly defiled a three-year-old girl. Read more here.
In West Africa, many people believe in supernatural powers. Every year, thousands of women are branded as witches and persecuted. They can only survive in isolated villages. Read more here.
Witchcraft is suspected in the mysterious cutting of a Shetland pony’s mane. Read more here.
Abuja-Lokoja road has become the most dangerous highway in Nigeria due to the numerous death from accident and blood spillage of Nigerians. It is obvious to spiritually discernible persons that the constant death on Abuja-Lokoja road is a deliberate conspiracy between the local witches and the politicians in Aso Rock, National Assembly and Federal Ministry of Works. Read more here.
