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• n  the art of sorcery

• She admits that witchcraft is power and bemoans the fact that in America "power leads to corruption.
• But today it also extends all the way from Satanism and witchcraft to the edges of science, as in Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's experiment in extrasensory perception from aboard .
• As he writes, "This book is the end product of an almost half-century engagement with witchcraft study.

• witchery

News & Articles

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• Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea linked to jealousy
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — On a tropical island where most people live in huts, assailants armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed the wooden house by night. They set the building on fire and took away four female relatives to be tortured. Their alleged crime: witchcraft.
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Brutal Papua New Guinea witch hunts mask jealousy in nation with deep belief in black magic
  CANBERRA, Australia †On a tropical island where most people live in huts, assailants armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed the wooden house by night. They set the building on fire and took away four female relatives to be tortured. Their alleged crime: witchcraft.
  June 11, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• 'A lot of hatred': Deadly witch hunts in Papua New Guinea linked to jealousy
  CANBERRA, Australia -- On a tropical island in Papua New Guinea where most people live in huts, a mob armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed a wooden house by night. They seized Helen Rumbali and three female relatives, set the building on fire and took the women away to be tortured. Their alleged crime: Witchcraft.After being repeatedly slashed with knives, Rumbali's older sister and two ...
  June 10, 2013 - MSNBC

Quotes

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• Arthur Kornberg in The Age
  No matter how counterintuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine,Kornberg wrote in 1977. "Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft."
• President Bush in New York Times
  I don't think witchcraft is a religion,Mr. Bush said at the time, according to a transcript. "I would hope the military officials would take a second look at the decision they made."
• Pat Robertson in smudailycampus.com
  Pat Robertson, a well-known televangelist, stated in an interview, "feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become...