Word: witchcraft
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...food were pretty standard. Given the formal’s name, FlyBy expected to eat Celtic dishes, light bonfires for druidic sacrifices, and practice witchcraft with cauldrons. Beyond one Dunsterite spotted in a kilt, most stuck to the usual formal garb. But maybe HoCo should find this a blessing in disguise. Rather than reflecting its batshit theme, Dunster’s Beltane was a solid night likely to remembered (or not) by many...
...offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile-filled penultimate scene in Romancing the Stone...
...some communities in Africa, parents still believe their children are dying not from AIDS, but from witchcraft. Meanwhile, many HIV activists encourage medical doctors in these contexts to rely on the assistance of traditional healers (who are known to spread the myth that sleeping with a virgin cures diseases. While one NGO in Zimbabwe has already tried to debunk that myth, it is astonishing that donors spend millions of dollars on expensive HIV testing and (comparably) miniscule resources are spent on providing vital information to containing the spread of AIDS...
...Eventually Obama's opponents moved past accusing him of celebrity and socialism to charging his family with witchcraft and warning that his election would bring on the End of Days, when Christianity would be criminalized and "God could take his hand of protection off of America," as Gary Bauer, who once ran for President himself, put it. Obama, meanwhile, used his immense financial advantage to run a half-hour prime-time ad that told his story, made his case - and never once mentioned McCain...
...does the praying about witchcraft fit in? Pentecostalism's heavy emphasis on the Holy Spirit appeals to converts from cultures that believe in spirit worlds, particularly cultures in Africa, and it encourages those who think there is an ongoing spiritual war between good and evil. They point to New Testament accounts of Jesus casting out evil spirits, and some argue that while many spirits may exist, the Holy Spirit is the only one "true" spirit...