Friday 21 August 2015

News: Witchcraft, Occult, Witch Hunts, Trees, Fairies

"Modern-day witch hunt: Author Richard Beck examines the causes and consequences of the ’80s child-abuse panic" - interview with the author of We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980sat Minnpost: https://www.minnpost.com/minnpost-asks/2015/08/modern-day-witch-hunt-author-richard-beck-examines-causes-and-consequences-80s

"Tell a witch that witches do not exist" - story at news24: http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Tell-a-witch-that-witches-do-not-exist-20150819

"Inside the Museum of the Occult: How real-life ghostbuster couple built one-of-a-kind archive below their home filled with voodoo dolls, satanic altars and mummies" - story and pictures at MailOnline: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204237/Inside-house-horrors-inspired-Conjuring-Occult-museum-basement-Connecticut-home-holds-thousands-relics-infamous-demon-fighting-couple.html

"Mob lynching, witch hunt culprits go unpunished in Gaya" - story at the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Mob-lynching-witch-hunt-culprits-go-unpunished-in-Gaya/articleshow/48552119.cms

"Gender Minister monitors registration of Ngani Witch Camp inmates onto LEAP" - story at Graphic Online: http://graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/48134-gender-minister-monitors-registration-of-ngani-witch-camp-inmates-onto-leap.html

"19 August 1612: the Lancashire witch trials" - story at MoneyWeek: http://moneyweek.com/19-august-1612-the-lancashire-witch-trials/

"Ancient Trees: Woman Spends 14 Years Photographing World’s Oldest Trees" - story at boredpanda: http://www.boredpanda.com/ancient-tree-photography-beth-moon/

"What fairy circles teach us about science" - story at sciencenews: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/what-fairy-circles-teach-us-about-science

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