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POPSDid the devil make him do it? The parents of a schoolby charged with kipping a fellow pupil said that he was "into satanism", as did some newspaper headlines. The trouble is, these allegations are tossed about, but never followed up. There were similar reports a few months ago in the Eastern Cape, but we have heard no more.
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POPSNo-no to Atheists Our friends across the pond seem to suffer the same sort of religious bigotry that we have here in the States. Of course, I suppose the question could be asked why employees are surfing the net instead of working but that's for another clip.
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POPSSo, you want to be a Werewolf? Three of the most famous ways to become a werewolf: Curse, Black Magic, and Pact with the Devil. If any feel the need to try this contact me and let me know how it went and if you woke up in the pound!
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POPSThat Wacky Millennium Part V (1450 - 1492) The Inquisition! Here we Go! The Inquisition, What a Show! New Factoid: Isabella appointed Torquemada head of the Spanish Inquisition! That was one busy lady! Supporting Columbus, Marrying Ferdinand, appointing an Inquisitor General, yet she still has time to oust the Muslims from Spain and wait until Part VI!
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POPSMoor overstanding. Crescents were worn by many native, indigenous person;... the to safeguard them against witchcraft and danger. Did you the Eastern symbol, the horseshoes was use as a amulets of witchcraft look how they flip ed it on usWhen the representation of the "Hand of Strength" was worn with the Crescent, it signified hospitality and generosity. "Hands of Might" are painted on houses in Italy, Syria, Turkey, and in the East, to protect the buildings from misfortune and the inmates from death. The blue beads were worn to avert the evil eye.
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POPSPenis Theft Panic Hits City Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
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POPS"Mad, Bad and Sad"
If male doctors conspired to define madness, responding to behaviors that flouted the social conventions of their culture, female patients, in the attempt to understand themselves and their context, and maybe even to create or bolster identity, colluded with those same doctors to satisfy the changing definitions of madness. “Often enough,” Appignanesi notes, “extreme expressions of the culture’s malaise, symptoms and disorders mirrored the time’s order.” While “Mad, Bad and Sad” echoes and enlarges upon Elaine Showalter’s book “The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980,” Showalter’s perspective is more exclusively feminist, arguing that psychiatry as practiced on women is a history of their subjugation and control by men. But as Appignanesi makes clear, women have had no little role in creating and fulfilling the definitions of their madness.<< "Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present" by Lisa Appignanesi.
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POPSThose Wacky Africans Another demonstration of how irrationality and superstition affects peoples lives. To most people this story will seem preposterous. To people caught in a web of magic and superstition it may seem mainstream. One man's folly is another man's religion.