Reading Time: 4 minutes Some version of the word witch is found in all languages and cultures and it generally refers to a person, often female, who is thought to affect people and the material world through benevolent or malevolent magic. The problem for the word in American and European usage is that it is so laden with connotations […]
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US witch hunter complains of death threats after exposing ‘demonic’ members of his congregation
Reading Time: 3 minutes The depraved Greg Locke has been on my radar since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when he first started breaking lockdown restrictions and behaving like a thug. In 2020, in a row after face masks, he threatened to kick the teeth of a Dunkin’ Donut employee down his throat. At the time he called […]
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Humanism and Witchcraft: Not Seeing God in Africa
Reading Time: 8 minutes Here is an excerpt from a chapter in a previous anthology of mine with chapters from writers here at Patheos Nonreligious (Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century) [UK here]. This chapter is by Warren Alan Tidwell (Kudzu in the Pines). It is not the whole chapter, but gives you a taste. Humanist Service and the Problem of Witchcraft […]
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Mustachioed Preacher VERY Upset About Imaginary Satanic Feminists (and Their Cats)
Reading Time: 6 minutes This pastor is furious that women are accepting scholarships and going to college. Don’t women realize that’s what Satan wants?
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Voodoo in the US: five-year-old girl 'permanently disfigured'
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sisters Peggy LaBossiere, 51, and Rachel Hilaire, 40, pictured in a Massachusetts court, were arrested after they allegedly subjected the child to a demon-busting voodoo ceremony that permanently disfigured her. According to this report, the pair also threatened to cut off the head of the girl’s eight-year-old brother with a machete. The boy said his sister […]
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African 'doctor', trained by angels, brutally killed in US
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pastor Raphael Happy-Ikenwilo, 53 – pictured above with his wife Jennifer – died in Maryland, Baltimore, last Saturday after being hit by a car then stabbed several times. According to this report, the pastor claimed he was sent to the US by God in 2012, and that he had been he trained by angels as […]
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'Possessed' woman fatally injured after being set on fire
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vilma Trujillo Garcia, 25, above, died yesterday in Nicargua just days after a bunch of deranged Christians threw her onto a bonfire because they thought she was possessed by the devil. According to this report, an Assemblies of God Church pastor and four members of his flock have been arrested after the mother of two […]
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Rwanda takes serious steps to eradicate witchcraft in football
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of Rwanda’s top football teams, Mukura Victory Sports, above, were recently involved in an incident at a match in which they, and rivals Rayon Sport, accused each other of using witchcraft. The Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA), acted swiftly, according to this report. At an extra-ordinary meeting FERWAFA’s executive committee and all first division club presidents […]
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Wizard fell to earth after his 'spiritual Google map' failed
Reading Time: < 1 minute A naked man found in the fortified grounds of a church in Benin claimed that he had fallen to earth when his ‘spiritual Google map’ stopped working. According to this report, he told church workers who found him at the City Gate Church in Benin that he was a wizard on a flight from Delta […]
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Guest Post Revisited: Being an Atheist in the midst of Malawian Witchcraft
Reading Time: 13 minutes I thought it would be interesting to repost this one:This is a fascinating account of someone I met on facebook who has interesting things to say with regard to religion and society in a part of the world which is easy to misunderstand for someone like me. I found mention of sleep paralysis interesting as […]