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Australian man burns witches house after “sex curse”
In the Northern Territory, Australia, David Laurin has been sentenced to three years for burning a woman’s house down. Laurin, 31, pleaded guilty to the charges as the court heard he believed the woman was a witch who had cursed his sex life. In the NT Supreme Court, Chief Justice Dean Mildren heard how David […]
Aberdeen city council to burn a witch
A Scottish city is set to burn a 16th century witch and is giving people the chance to meet the gaoler before hand.
The re-enactment will be held on Saturday the 18th of July at 11am, 12 noon, 2pm and 3pm at The Tolbooth Museum, Castle Street, Aberdeen.
The council’s press release notes that burnings were rare in Aberdeen except in 1597 when King James the VI encouraged a witch hunt. That year 20 people were executed for witchcraft.
The Indigenous Traditional Healers Association and Sierra Leone police round up witch doctors
Police questioned a group of nine suspects on Saturday in Freetown after a recent spate of deaths in Sierra Leone’s capital city.
The nine people are believed to be practising witch doctors and police found masks, goat horns and ritual robes during their raid.
The police action was assisted by The Indigenous Traditional Healers Association in Sierra Leone who helped with the investigation.
Speaking to the press, Sulaiman Kabbah, spoke of the extreme tension in the city and the anger towards the suspected witch doctors; “hundreds of bystanders wanted to lynch them but they were restrained by the police presence.”
Rome’s midsummer San Giovanni celebrations to include a musical witch hunt
The city of Rome will stage a witch-hunt, music and a feast in order to celebrate St John the Baptist. The San Giovanni (Saint John) festival is traditionally held on the night of the 24th and midsummer.
A tradition in the city of Rome is that the night before, the 23rd, is the “Night of the Witches”. To mark this occasion there will be a night of song, verse and a musical witch hunt in the gardens adjacent to Via Sannio.
Stands in the gardens will offer party goers free samples of snails – to eat. It is believed that eating a snail would prevent a man’s wife from committing adultery on him.
Medieval witch to be given Christian funeral after decapitation 700 years ago
The remains of a teenage witch who was sentenced to death and her head removed for being a witch more than 700 years ago are to be given both a Christian funeral and burial. Decapitation was used as a method to prevent eternal life in the dark ages. When the remains of the body were […]
Kenyan pop-star Nyota Ndogo hunted by witchdoctor assassins
The popular Kenyan singer Nyota Ndogo is reported to have gone into hiding after reports that witches and witchdoctors had been approached to kill her.
According to Ndogo she received a call from a man who identified himself as a witch and who had been asked to trace and kill her. The witch, however, refused the contract as he saw no evil in the singer.
Ndogo told Kenyan newspaper The Standard, “I was so shocked. Somebody called me saying that he had been ordered to kill me but could not trace a good reason to do so as, according to his findings, I had not wronged anyone. He asked to meet me at my residence in secrecy to deliver the full message.”
Lithuanian debt collector uses witchcraft to collect arrears
A debt collecting firm based in Vilnius in Lithuania has appointed Vilija Lobaciuviene – a self proclaimed witch – to use her arts and techniques to hunt down those individuals who are failing to pay their credit crunch debts.
“There are certain people, who are using this crisis situation and refuse to pay back banks or other companies,” said Amantas Celkonas, director of the Skolu Isieskojimo Biuras, or debt collecting bureau.
“Our new employee will help them to understand the situation, reconsider what is right and wrong and act accordingly,” he said. “We will also help those who are in real trouble, suffering from psychological impact of bankruptcy and depression.”
Is there something strange at Bidston Hall?
Bidston, just west of Birkenhead and south of Liverpool, is an area of Merseyside with dark history.
One of the worse murders of the 19th century can be attributed to the area. The discovery of the remains a family of five was found buried in the cellar of a building near Rain Hill. Emily Williams and her children; Bertha, Marie, Lilla and Syndey had been cruelly butchered.
Suspicion soon fell on the surviving member of the family – the father and husband – who had fled. Police investigated and discovered that Williams had a dark past. Williams true name was likely to be Deeming. Deeming was also suspected for murder – his wife Marie. He had grown up in the Bidston area of Birkenhead before going on to travel the world and using such esoteric aliases as Baron Swanston.
Ghosts in the mortuary and witches in Liverpool’s Central Library?
Liverpool’s Central Library is a complex set of buildings, some of which are grade II listed and others due for demolition and replacement. The library’s eldest building is the William Brown Library and Museum, which was extended in 1879 to the Picton Reading Room and then the Hornby Library in 1906.
Central Library is part of the William Brown Street conservation area. This area includes the unusual St John’s Gardens and St John’s Church.
St John’s Church was designed by Thomas Litoller and construction started in 1767 in an area which was once used as the general burial ground of a small mortuary chapel. St George’s Hall’s west elevation backs against the Church.
