Freaky facts: • King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307. • Jesus was crucified on a Friday. • The goddess Frigga (for whom Friday is named) was banished by the Christians and labeled a witch. Every Friday, she was believed to meet with 11 [...]
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St. Obama ?
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A UK man has confessed to dressing up like Darth Vader and attacking two men who founded a church based on Jedi teachings. It claims to have about 30 members locally and “thousands worldwide”. Hughes admitted two charges of common assault. The court heard he has a “chronic alcohol problem” and had drunk the best [...]
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Embattled Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a firm believer in astrology and the supernatural, conceded Friday that the stars have not been in his favor lately, but said his political enemies were taking it a step too far. “They are using all kinds of means to try to destroy me, including black [...]
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One writer asked God to answer a friend’s prayers, and in a postscript gives the friend’s address, adding, “But you knew that.”
PORT MORESBY (Reuters) – Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults, the National newspaper reported Thursday. Belief in sorcery is widespread in this jungle-clad, mountainous South Pacific island nation where some villages only encountered Western civilization in the 1930s. Police raided three villages Monday near the city [...]
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Abdullah Hashem is still making movies, but this time the location is a little different and the subject much more serious. A year ago Hashem wrapped up production on the movie “Apache Tears,” which used Mooresville and central Indiana for many of the scenes. Since then he has been working on a documentary about the [...]
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Fear grips residents of remote villages in the boundary of Jose Abad Santos town in Davao del Sur province and Glan town in Sarangani province after the leader of a cult allegedly involved in cannibalism managed to elude arrest. [See inq7.net for the story]
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HAZARIBAGH: Can witches survive in India. Not if they hail from Palani village in Jharkhand. For here, those identified or suspected as witches are thrashed black and blue with the connivance of the local police. [via newindpress.com]
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When it comes to dabbling in the black arts, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has much in common with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Saddam reportedly wore a stone around his neck to ward off evil. When he was ensconced in his Iraqi palaces, he summoned up the jinn (genies) to do his bidding. According [...]
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A woman, accused of practising witchcraft, was publicly beaten up and her face blackened following the death of a girl at the holy town of Trimbakeshwar. [via The Hindu] A little over 300 years ago we would have thought nothing of this in the “New World” and we all would probably be cheering them on.
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Mr Poussaint sees nothing wrong with what he does. It is, he insists, work that has to be carried out. “If the child is not exorcised then it will grow up to be horrible. I get results,” said the 75-year-old, who is originally from Benin in West Africa. [via The Telegraph] This is the first [...]
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