BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman lost more than 5,000 euros ($6,000) after a would-be soothsayer convinced her she was possessed by evil spirits and prescribed an expensive exorcism as a remedy, authorities said Wednesday. Police in the central town of Northeim said the 44-year-old was told she was possessed by a young woman who [...]
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A woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a friend during an exorcism ritual, police said Thursday. Justice Claudette Singh imposed the sentence late Wednesday, saying Patricia Alvez, 42, had been convicted “of a shocking crime which claimed the life of a woman she befriended.” A 12-member jury convicted Alvez of [...]
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A Chatsworth policeman has been implicated in the killing of a young woman, who was whipped to death in an eight-hour exorcism ritual. The family of 20-year-old Farhana Khan on Monday told the Daily News a policeman was one of the spiritual leaders who had conducted the exorcism. They say the policeman is based at [...]
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An exorcism carried out by spiritual healers last week went horribly wrong when a 20-year-old Chatsworth woman died after the procedure. Farhana Essop’s family claims that she went through an eight-hour whipping ordeal when two spiritual healers attempted to remove “evil spirits” from her. [continue story...]
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Mexico City, Aug. 30 (CNA/CWNews.com) – At the recent National Congress of Exorcists held at the headquarters of the Mexican bishops’ conference, organizers revealed that up to five exorcisms per day are taking place in the country. The number of daily exorcisms has been climbing since the 1960s, according to researchers. In the central Federal [...]
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Former Bracknell Town Mayor Jennie McCraken was harassed by the ghost for the first year of living at their former Binfield house. She eventually turned to family friend Terry Walters – an amateur exorcist – to rid them of the spooky serpent. And the wife of leading Bracknell Forest Borough councillor Iain McCracken added that [...]
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Kolkata: Steeped in superstition, a farmer in a West Bengal village resorted to exorcism to cure his ailing daughter but the black magic rituals only ended up killing her. Ashok Bag of Ranghat village in North 24 Parganas district adjoining Kolkata beat his seven-year-old sick daughter with a broomstick believing she was possessed, police said [...]
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Manila, Philippines – Lawmakers have joined the growing clamor for the House ethics committee to probe the involvement of some of their colleagues in the exorcism rite at the start of the impeachment hearings, even as they expressed belief that Fr. Robert Reyes should be censured by the Church for conducting the ceremony. Reps. Mauricio [...]
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A Medford man was committed to the state psychiatric hospital Thursday for stabbing, spray-painting and setting fire to his pet kitten. … In an attempt to exorcise a gray, 10-week-old kitten named Cosmo, McCray stabbed it multiple times with a small knife that folds into a cross-shaped pendant, said Sarita Glassburner, deputy district attorney for [...]
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A court has freed a monk and four nuns who are charged with killing a nun last month during an exorcism ritual, authorities in Romania said today. The Appeals Court in Bucharest refused to extend arrest warrants against the suspects and ordered them to be freed, the court said in a statement. The statement did [...]
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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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Media fascination with the ‘exorcism scandal’ continued last week, however, reaching an almost hysterical pitch and leaving one police officer feeling he was ‘in the middle of a medieval witch-hunt’. Others wondered whether they were edging towards ‘another Orkneys’ – an alleged child abuse scandal on the islands that never was. [via The Guardian]
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