In 2008, Lebanese TV host Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested on charges of sorcery while in Saudi Arabia on a religious pilgrimage.

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Now she was involved in a clan battle, a highland clearance by witch accusation, where the Chisholms accused their Maclean tenants of sorcery.

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Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before.

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The repeal of the 1971 Sorcery Act, which acknowledged the accusation of sorcery as a plausible defence in murder cases, came after a series of brutal public killings.

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Here, then, are two slide shows demonstrating the outlines of how the ILM experts accomplished two amazing bits of computer sorcery.

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No one can match his prowess based on his unique balance of science, skill and sorcery.

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The game was Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, meant to be a World of Warcraft style sword and sorcery MMO.

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The London-based Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat quoted a source in the country's religious police who said authorities searched Nassar's home and found books on sorcery, a number of talismans and glass bottles filled with liquids supposedly used for the purposes of magic.

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Cyd is obsessed with an online videogame, a multiplayer sword-and-sorcery adventure similar to World of Warcraft.

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In other recent sorcery-related killings, police arrested 29 people in July last year accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea's jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors.

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