In the public interest the witch shall be excecuted. Among her accursors, a man that says she made him impotent.
Violet Dangale, a 42-year-old woman who "was driven from her home 30 months ago by relatives and neighbours who accused her of being a witch growing rich from the work of zombies, as the 'living dead' are known."
65-year-old Linah Seabi, "a sorghum beer brewer ... [who] was charged with killing an elderly woman with a poisonous potion.
"Francina Sebatsana, 75, and Desia Mamafa, 55 ... were burned to death on pyres of wood in the village of Wydhoek,"
Am I talking about the European Witch Trials of the 1550s? Or maybe the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690's? No, Francina and Desia were burned to death in South Africa in 1998. Linah stopped brewing beer in 1991. Violet in the early 90's.
And the first one? A Valentine story from the BBC. It seems that Saudi Arabia continues in its quest to punish women. How can we support a government that condons this kind of thing? Oh, yeah, oil. Oil does make the best friends, does it not?
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