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All Angels Day – A Celebration of Life

May 26, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

All Angels Day is a holistic healing event dedicated to spreading Light and Love. The event on the 22nd of May attracted positive reviews from mainstream media and the second event for 2009 is scheduled for December 5th.

Angelic Orb
Angelic Orb

Held in the Athenaeum on Angel Hill at Bury St Edmunds the day offered angelic readings, crystal energy, Reiki, EFT, spiritual guidance and children meditation sessions.

Cosmo Verner, one of the group of nine lightworkers supporting the event, described the day as a great success. Cosmo, who owns the Crystal Merchant, told press, “The community embraced our holistic approach to life and our wish to encourage communication, inspiration, love and light.”

The meaning of the number 7

May 18, 2009 by Andrew 4 Comments

The number 7 is a spiritual number. The number 7 reflects thought and meditation. The Hebrew for the number 7 has an origin in the word meaning “complete”. Personality traits of the number 7 People linked to the number 7 may be enigmatic. They are spiritual and contemplative but can also be analytical, scientific and […]

Coping with unlucky lilac in the house

May 16, 2009 by Andrew 3 Comments

Old English tradition considers lilac to be an unlucky flower which should not be carried into the house. This tradition is particular strong in Norfolk and surrounding areas.

Dragon and bamboo windchimes
Dragon and bamboo windchimes*

It is often suggested that the lilac flower – especially the white blossom – is associated with death and that’s why lilac is unlucky. As a result lilac is especially unwelcome in hospitals.

To understand how to cope with lilac in the house we need to look at more closely at the superstition.

The haunted room in Ramsey’s George Hotel burns

May 13, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The ghost in the haunted hotel room in the listed Cambridgeshire building is believed to hate fire. Known as Mary, she is believed to have died of smoke inhalation in the same room.

Jean Axelsen, cook at the George Hotel, told the press, “It is strange that the fire was contained to that one room and did not spread.

Stripping a witchdoctor of his power

May 12, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The Kenyan Standard carries photographs of an alleged witchdoctor, Mr Chengo Dingo, being stripped of his powers.

Kanamai residents in the Kilifi District accused Mr Dingo of destroying marriages and wrecking businesses. In response the locals hired the servers of two ‘senior’ withdoctors; Safari Mohamed and Omar Mohamed to render Dingo powerless.

The witchdoctor was shaved, painted, made to straddle the more senior Mohamed and tehn carried around the village. He was declared free of evil powers.

Sea turtles invade Bournemouth beach with IFAW warnings

May 11, 2009 by Andrew 1 Comment

The International Fund for Animal Welfare today swarmed Bournemouth beach with 200 cardboard hawkbill turtles.

Cardboard hawkbill turtles invade Bournemouth beach

The arrival of the turtles is a publicity stunt co-ordinated by the IFAW and agency Rapp designed to raise awareness of the dangers that souvenir hunters are having on wildlife.

Each of the cardboard turtles has a message written under it explaining the dangers of poachers and the efforts of the IFAW to fight them. “Turning the turtle over is the first thing that hunters do”, reads one hard-hitting message.

Extinction Sucks: Indian Rhinos

May 10, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

In this week’s Extinction Sucks Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young go all out to try and aid the endangered Indian Rhino. The pair travel to Nepal, the only other place in the world where you can find Indian Rhinos, to investigate the poaching situation.

There are less than 410 Indian Rhinos left in Nepal. A good place to find them is in the Chitwan National Park – a park divided into the buffer zone where locals are allowed to stray and the core zone which is only open to controlled tourism.

Guides from WWF Nepal explain how locals near the buffer zone can hope to earn around 5000 or 6000 rupees a month but by poaching rhinos they might make 6000 rupees a day. The temptation is clear. Sound like a lot of money? That’s about AU $70 or, as Ashleigh explains, about the price of a pair of shoes.

Transkei witch gunned down

May 9, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

In South Africa, a Transkei woman has been shot dead after she was accused of practising witchcraft.

The murder occurred in Bityi, near Mthatha, and the South African Daily Dispatch reports that the 49-year old woman was shot four times.

Superintendant Mzukisi Fatyela told local press that the shooting happened at about 9:30pm on the Thursday night.

“Two balaclava-clad men entered the house and without saying a word opened fire on the woman, killing her instantly,” said Fatyela.

Flaming faces haunt burning New Zealand building

May 6, 2009 by Andrew 7 Comments

New Zealand newspaper The Press has been collecting photographs taken in New Zealand of ghostly and unexplained sightings.

Ghosts in the flames

The paper dismissed most of the photographs as explainable and orbs, in particular, where described as dust on the camera lens.

Some of the photographs, however, were not so easily categorised by the judges.

Of particular note is the sighting of a ghostly face of flames peering out of the window of a burning building.

Nine on trial for witchcraft

May 6, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Nine women stand accused of witchcraft and face criminal charges in a court in Kenya.

The women from Kiagoro in the Kisii District of Kenya have been accused of intent to harm and witchcraft knowledge. It is claimed that they cast a spell on a local boy, which struck him dumb and forced him to walk from house to house for an entire night in April.

The nine women nearly escaped a lynch mob who set after them seeking just for the 11 year old boy.

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