Curses! Romania's witches forced to pay income tax


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Children abused, killed as witches in Nigeria

By Christian Purefoy, CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Children in Nigeria are getting abused after being accused of being witches
• Community workers say kids are cast out of their villages, attacked and even killed
• Rescued children bear the scars of being beaten, attacked with boiling water, and machete cuts
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Loving Harry, Hogwarts and All

Conservative Christian reviews of the new Harry Potter movie are surprisingly positive.

"As 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' opens, we are once again reminded of the characteristics that make him something of a Christ figure," Connie Neal writes for the evangelical Christianity Today.

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"A woman beheaded after she was accused of causing a girl to spit pins and convulse was exonerated Wednesday, more than 200 years after she became the last person executed as a witch in Europe...[She] was a maidservant in the house of prominent burgher Johann Jakob Tschudi. Tschudi, a doctor and magistrate, allegedly had an affair with Goeldi, ( Read more... )