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Saturday 30 October 2021

By the pricking of my thumbs



'Witchcraft' abuse cases in UK revealed including parent who sought exorcism for child 'pushed down stairs by ghost'

A rape suspect last year accused the alleged victim of involvement in witchcraft, while police were called after a parent said their child was "pushed down stairs by a ghost or spirit" and a priest had been asked to do an exorcism.

How comforting to be reminded again that we have been importing witchcraft belief for years. Yet surely we have enough witches of our own without adding to their numbers. Perhaps it tells us something about our immigration controls.

4 comments:

dearieme said...

Remember the "Satanic Child Abuse" nonsense in Orkney? As far as I know none of the people involved came from Africa or the Caribbean. Though I'll grant you that none were natives of Orkney either. And before that, the mad Australian doctor and her acolytes sticking their fingers up the bums of babies in a hospital in Cleveland (Teesside)? It turned out that the bonkers "Satanic Child Abuse" doctrine came from loopy Evangelical Christians in the USA.

We're going to hell on a handcart.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - good point, I do remember the nonsense in Orkney. Maybe the superstitious nonsense is a distraction and only the child abuse should be considered. Stick to the observed behaviour towards children and don't try to make sense of what does not make sense. Even that could set a few hares running though.

Sam Vega said...

Fewer exorcisms, more deportations.

A K Haart said...

Sam - lots more.