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Friday 23 October 2020
Two men were killed after allegedly murdering four people, including a child.
Fabienne Kabou had blamed the killing on “witchcraft”.
“While she was sick, the wife often felt possessed and said that the old woman had cast a spell on her.”
In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson went on a religious, drug-fuelled mission to rid the world of “witches” in California.
Lori Sforza, a “psychic” witch priestess, won the case against Christian Day, “the world’s best-known warlock.”
But Deirdre Wadding hopes it will be her radical left policies rather than her religion that will have voters under her spell.
Strict new coronavirus measures have come into effect – here’s what they mean for you.
Villagers blamed the women for bringing illness, poor crops and bad luck.
A “reclusive” family were found brutally murdered in their home on Friday.
Her attackers, armed with machetes, took her from her house before beheading her.
Malawian albino people are “living in fear of being attacked or killed”.
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Archbishop Andrzej Dziega denounced dressing up as ghouls and ghosts for the 31 October festival as a “promotion of paganism”, and of death.
A woman and her boyfriend have been sentenced for the “sadistic” killing of her 15-year-old brother, who the couple had accused of practising witchcraft.
A young woman and her boyfriend have been convicted of murdering her brother, 15, who suffered over 100 injuries before he drowned on Christmas Day 2010.
A woman who was burned at the stake in Cologne almost 400 years ago has been vindicated after a retrial.
The two 28-year-olds are accused of murdering their young relative who was spending Christmas 2010 with them.
The latest Palin protegée admits to dabbling in witchcraft – and then withdraws from a string of talkshow bookings.
AS THE COUNTRY enters Level 5 restrictions for the next six weeks, we’ll all be finding different ways to occupy our time or take a break from work.
In April and May, many people put their trainers on and went for long walks, jogs or runs. Others took a dip in the sea.
With restrictions now in place, we want to know: Do you plan to exercise more over the next six weeks?
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Lecturer Maeve O’Rourke analyses the government’s nine main arguments in relation to the Bill.
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