RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 7:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2012 at 7:35 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(January 25, 2012 at 5:52 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: In Africa, they still hunt down & kill children they suspect of being witches
The current high fashion in Africa is killing albinos. Albino people. Adults and children. Of which there are a lot overthere. And then they chop them up in dice-sized little pieces and 'sangomas' (witch doctors) sell those as 'muti'. Best translated as 'magic medicine'. Against all manner of ailments and bad luck, or to please certain deities, or to pacify demons. Etc. etc.
They are fully aware that it is against the law but that's never stopped the black market – actually the white market of the black people of course – from thriving.
Just imagine how much 'muti' you can sell, at 50 bucks a pop, of just one miserable albino, whom no one would miss anyway. It could pay for that shiny Merc you want so much!
But witchcraft is just as prevalent among white people. Only they don't call it witchcraft anymore (in the English-speaking world), because of the negative connotations, but the fashionable nomenclature is Wicca, which, you guessed it, they claim is their 'religion'...
Another difference is that western Wiccas don't kill and chop up people (anymore). As far as we know...
And just to be complete: Asians are at least as superstitious as Africans or Caucasians. Just look at their millions of idols in temples or beside the roads, or their illegal tigerbone trade, etc. etc. And they just love fortune telling! And a fortune teller is of course simply another kind of witch.
