Usually I find articles from Christians claiming witchcraft is dangerous to be ill-informed and simply reactionary.
Salem burned itself an infamous place in history with the1692 hysteria that put innocent people to death for witchcraft.
Students at Dar Es Salaam University were reluctant to talk to CNN about opinions relating to witchcraft.
CNN: Witchcraft in Tanzania: the good, bad and the persecution
Mr Ng'arua said that he had recorded another break-in on Tuesday night, when the alleged witchcraft was performed.
So even with a university education, some students retain some faith in witchcraft.
CNN: Witchcraft in Tanzania: the good, bad and the persecution
"When you are accused of witchcraft, it's a loss of dignity, " says Samata.
Your attempt to move beyond an obsession with warlords and witchcraft was edifying.
I'm not going to spend any time claiming witchcraft is completely safe, because like everything else in life it's not.
During the witch craze that swept Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, 103 people were found guilty of witchcraft on Guernsey alone.
The author of Dracula was also the author of the non-fiction book, Famous Imposters, which exposed hoaxes such as witchcraft and magic.
George was obsessed with witchcraft and horror films, the court was told.
In rural Papua New Guinea, witchcraft is often blamed for unexplained misfortunes.
But officials say accusations of witchcraft are used to justify violence.
Police also arrested a number of witchdoctors suspected of passing on the names of "witches" to people whose relatives had died "through witchcraft".
With "witchcraft"-related crimes on the increase in Tanzania, the police chief said old women with red eyes were being singled out for attack.
The special features material on the second DVD improves on the Philosopher's Stone release as fans journey into the world of witchcraft and wizardry.
This 117-year-old castle-like hostelry in the Canadian Rockies looks and feels like the maze-like fictional school of witchcraft and wizardry from the Harry Potter books.
There has never been a shred of scientific evidence to support it, and the British Medical Association declared in 2010 that homeopathy is witchcraft.
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More context on earlier cases of witchcraft would have helped too.
However it is precisely in these 'witchcraft' areas in which the advances of medicine have occurred, but very little has encroached into the basic physical examination.
You could use connoisseur testimony to convict someone of witchcraft.
Recently, there was an outcry over the discovery that children in Tanzania were being abducted, skinned and killed, and their skins sold for witchcraft in other parts of the continent.
After they set out on their quest, the pacing really picks up and we get a series of wonderful set pieces involving magic, witchcraft, monsters, and just one danger after another.
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There were allegations of adultery, witchcraft, and attempted murder-for-hire.
Take the School of Witchcraft and Wizardy mod, which brings a Skyrim-style Hogwarts to the game, replete with hundreds of new spells, familiar Harry Potter NPCs, and new areas to explore.
Dylan Hurwitz remembers being disappointed at age 11 -- soon after he began reading the books -- when an owl didn't arrive to whisk him away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
So you'd probably find a 17th century doctor quite at home with the clinical examination side of medicine as it stands today, but of course all the diagnostic tests would be considered as witchcraft.
In 2009, after a string of such killings, the chairman of PNG's Constitutional Review and Law Reform Commission said defendants were using accusations of witchcraft as an excuse to kill people, and called for tougher legislation to tackle the issue.
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