In February, a 20-year-old mother accused of sorcery was burned alive in a village market.
In 2008, Lebanese TV host Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested on charges of sorcery while in Saudi Arabia on a religious pilgrimage.
Now she was involved in a clan battle, a highland clearance by witch accusation, where the Chisholms accused their Maclean tenants of sorcery.
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.
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.
Here, then, are two slide shows demonstrating the outlines of how the ILM experts accomplished two amazing bits of computer sorcery.
Amina bint Abdel Halim Nassar was executed Monday for having "committed the practice of witchcraft and sorcery, " according to an Interior Ministry statement.
We see what he sees and, by the sorcery of paint, as he sees with a consciousness both outward and inward, alive in a moment forever.
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.
Cyd is obsessed with an online videogame, a multiplayer sword-and-sorcery adventure similar to World of Warcraft.
In September, a Sudanese national was beheaded in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina after being convicted on 'sorcery' charges.
Along the way, he also came to love magic not spells and sorcery, but the tricks and illusions of puzzlers and prestidigitators.
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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