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  • September 2008

    • Downturns Spark 'Witch Hunts' Against Elderly

      Slate  |  Sep 20, 08 8:07 PM CDT

      Downturns Spark 'Witch Hunts' Against Elderly

      (Newser) - "Witch-hunting” is a hot term these days as angry Wall Street investors pine for revenge—but in some countries they take it literally, Tim Harford writes in Slate. In Tanzania, Bolivia, and India, elderly women are often targeted as witches when resources are scarce. Tanzanian women are killed by their own families: "The machete is the weapon of choice," Harford writes. More »

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      poverty  • economics  • Tanzania  • witchcraft  • witches

  • August 2008

    • Swiss Pardon Europe's Last Executed Witch

      Independent (UK)  |  Aug 28, 08 4:56 AM CDT

      Swiss Pardon Europe's Last Executed Witch

      (Newser) - It's 226 years too late to restore her head to her body but the Swiss have decided to restore the good name of convicted witch Anna Goeldi, the Independent reports. Goeldi, the last person in Europe to be executed for witchcraft, was tortured and killed after being accused of casting spells to make a young girl convulse and spit pins. More »

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      Switzerland  • pardon  • witchcraft  • witches  • exonerate

  • May 2008

    • JK Rowling Pens Potter Prequel

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 29, 08 3:49 AM CDT

      JK Rowling Pens Potter Prequel

      (Newser) - Harry Potter fans mourned when JK Rowling ended the enormously popular schoolboy wizard saga with the seventh and final book last year. But now she has written a surprise short prequel likely to trigger a bidding frenzy. Rowling has donated an 800-word handwritten manuscript to the British bookseller Waterstone's to be auctioned for charity. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • witches

    • Kenya Mob Torches 11 for Witchcraft

      Associated Press  |  May 22, 08 8:15 AM CDT

      Kenya Mob Torches 11 for Witchcraft

      (Newser) - A mob in western Kenya hunted down and killed 11 people they accused of being witches and wizards, AP reports. The gang went from house to house with a list of suspected sorcerers and the spells they had cast. The eight men and three women, most over 70, were lynched and burned in their homes in the notoriously superstitious district. More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • witchcraft  • witches  • lynching

  • November 2007

    • Africa's Child 'Witches' Abused, Abandoned

      New York Times  |  Nov 15, 07 1:34 PM CST

      Africa's Child 'Witches' Abused, Abandoned

      (Newser) - Thousands of children in Angola, Congo, and the Congo Republic are being abused, abandoned, and even killed after being accused of witchcraft, the New York Times reports. Such accusations—born from tribal superstition and poverty that leaves some families unable to care for children—are a "massive" problem, sending hundreds of children alone into the streets of cities like Kinshasa and Luanda. More »

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      children  • Africa  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • witchcraft  • witches

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