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    <title>Gullibility isn&apos;t in the dictionary</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Anti-theism, skepticism, laughing at quackery &amp; fraud]]></description>
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      <title>Too Many Creationists</title>
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      <description>More Americans believe in creationism than intelligent design or evolutionary theory.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The average American if told by a movie star, television personality or preacher that the earth is flat would believe it. That a poll shows that most people are incapable of discerning where reason ends and wishful thinking begins is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Holy Cow!</title>
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      <description>India&apos;s struggles to cope with sacred animals that cause problems, kill and maim people. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Cows are sacred to Hindus and just the rumour of mistreatment can prompt angry mobs to kill people in revenge. Traffic routinely comes to a halt to allow the animals to amble across highways and pedestrians constantly side-step steaming evidence...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-05-04T18:02:41-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The onion squeezing witch</title>
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      <description>Gosaiganj, near Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow, is gripped by fears of a witch who begs for onions.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Illness and death &#8230; hate those things myself. Why not blame a witch nobody has seen. You give her an onion, she squeezed it and you are cursed. Luckily red and orange palm prints plus a little holy water will...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-05-02T17:30:16-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Peter the Roman due soon. End of world to follow.</title>
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      <description>Bible crackpots claim that Pope Benedict is the Pope prior to Peter the Roman predicted by St. Malachy as preceding Christ&apos;s return to judge the world.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[More excitement about St. Malarkey, er, St. Malachy&#39;s endtime prophecies and Pope Benedict XVI. Peter the Roman is supposed to be the final pope before the Last Judgement. Benedict, believers say, fits the description of the second-to-last pope listed under...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-04-29T08:46:46-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Wooden wedding</title>
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      <description>Hindu priest marries two trees to banish evil eye.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[When robberies and other crimes happen in India they seem to always blame it on supernatural baddies. &#8220;There is an evil eye that has been cast on us. So we decided to take recourse to spiritual means to ward it...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Mormons still rebaptizing deceased Jews</title>
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      <description>Mormon rebaptism: baptizing dead people to conver them into members of the LDS church.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[They&#39;ve promised to stop but I guess it is addictive. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) has long collected names from government documents and other records worldwide for posthumous baptisms. Church members stand in for the deceased...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-04-10T13:42:32-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Mary: Arogyamatha or Our Lady of Health</title>
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      <description>Lourdes of the East the Vailankanni shrine home of Mary - Arogyamatha or Our Lady of Health</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Her inability to prevent tidal waves appears to have damaged her standing. Before the tsunami, she used to run a tea stall in front of the church and attended Mass each night to thank God for her takings. Now she...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Woman worshipping, female dominant (Femdom) religion.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Female sadists want your prayers (literally) and they&#39;ll take donations too. Female Dominance and Fetishism as a Religious Philosophy? Yes. Why not? A growing number of special women, some wearing long, flowing robes and capes, and thonged sandals upon their...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Hyderabad India: female ghosts are being blamed for crimes and murders.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Female ghosts are said to be committing crimes in Hyderabad, India. Black-magic killers struck last week in a town 280 km from the cyber city, which is shivering for fear of ghostly prowlers. Three-year-old Bande Nawaj was found dead, with...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-03-27T18:44:35-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Crowd to saint: drop dead already</title>
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      <description>Hindu mystic failed to acheive ichha mrityu or death by his own will</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Followers of a Hindu saint rioted in eastern India after he failed to die at the anointed time. More than 15,000 people turned up at the Sriguru Ashram at Kharagaon in Orissa to see the priest &#39;ascend to heaven&#39; between...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Water into wine easier than girl into boy</title>
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      <description>Hindu woman claims goddess Durga told her in a dream to put a little girl into the water to turn it into a boy.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If the goddess Durga speaks to you in your dreams ignore her. In another shocking story of blind faith and preference for the male child, a woman drowned her infant granddaughter in a flooded ditch, thinking a goddess would turn...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-10-27T06:46:59-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Mtshotshaphansi</title>
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      <description>Women who claim they are being raped over distance while asleep in bed with their husband.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Rape isn&#39;t funny but what is going on in some South African women&#39;s minds isn&#39;t rape. The women in Edinburgh village near Bushbuckridge say their attackers are using muti called Mtshotshaphansi that allows men to rape the women without being...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-10-06T02:19:06-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A Kumari&apos;s life</title>
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      <description>Young girls live temporarily and Buddhist and Hindu goddesses only to be tossed aside at puberty.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Life as a living goddess - a Kumari - doesn&#39;t sound all that great. You spend your childhood under what is little more than house arrest. Every so often you are pulled through the streets on a chariot. When puberty...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-09-29T07:39:26-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Gullibility around the world</title>
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      <description>Zealots of all persuasions – Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and Jewish – welcome attacks on science and reason.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ [Soccer World Cup] &#8230; When Pakistan lost the match, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who became prime minister in 2004, had an interesting explanation. In his view, &#8220;the PTV (Pakistan Television) song that boasted that we would win, did not contain...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-09-23T14:09:49-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Special sun rays  produce male children</title>
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      <description>Couples have to perform long rituals to purify themselves before bathing in the pond together.</description>
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      <dc:date>2004-09-23T04:28:18-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Witchcraft &amp; soccer]]></title>
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      <description>Witchcraft, juju being used to influence the outcomes of soccer matches.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Reports emerging from neighboring Tanzania indicate that the national team failed to advance to the 2006 World Cup group stages because money meant for players&#39; allowances was diverted to pay a witchdoctor. A former secretary general of the Tanzania&#39;s Football...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-09-14T14:57:30-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>She killed him with an evil grin on her face</title>
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      <description>Murderer claimed she was controlled by Kabbalah cult.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A follower of Madonna&#8217;s Kabbalah sect killed her lover and great-grandmother, claiming the group &#8220;controlled her&#8221;, a court heard yesterday. Phiona Davis attended the London Kabbalah centre &#8212; set up with a &pound;3.65million donation by the star. &#8230; She stood...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Holy monkey hit squad</title>
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      <description>Indian holy monkeys are pests, thought protected by the gods the only way to get rid of them was to kill them.</description>
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      <title>Witch doctor didn&apos;t make him Superman</title>
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      <description>Tanzanian criminal dies after asking witch doctor to make him immune to bullets and knives.</description>
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      <dc:date>2004-08-25T14:27:09-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>South African prophet David Francis</title>
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      <description>David Francis of Hertzogville in the Free State South African claims to be a prophet and predicts failed ressurection.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[South African police have removed a man&#8217;s body from his widow&#8217;s bedroom after he was left unburied for more than seven weeks following his death because she hoped he would be resurrected. The body of the man, Paul Meintjies, 77,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-08-23T02:26:13-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>Revolutionary Marxist hero is called a saint and becomes a profitable source of tourist money.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Che Guevara, a Marxist and atheist, would&#39;ve been appalled to discover himself joining Jesus and the Virgin Mary as a saint in the Bolivian village of La Higuera. Saints are good money makers.&#8220;They say he brings miracles,&#8221; said Susana Osinaga,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-08-19T10:24:05-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Plagued by a hail of stones</title>
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      <description>African woman claims to be under curse.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An African woman claims that rocks shower down on her wherever she goes. She has been evicted by her own family.The 58-year-old believes a Zimbabwean trader cast an evil spell on her, because she failed to pay for clothing she&#39;d...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Blaming disasters on god</title>
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      <dc:date>2004-07-07T05:59:02-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>Parents Say Group Turns Family Members Into Strangers and changes name to Center of Light.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[They call themselves a mystical Christian order, devoted to meditation and prayer. But former member Nancy Wainer said that the order of Christ Sophia is a dangerous cult that breaks up families. &#8220;They use deception, mind control, hypnosis, all kinds...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-06-29T06:23:37-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>South Dakota but the Christians excavating one remote cliff-face were digging not just for reptilian vertebrae </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Almost half the people here in American think the Biblical account of creation is true. Now we have born-again dinosaur hunters seeking fossils in a nutty attempt to die their present shortage into the Noahic flood myth. Lecturing to a...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-06-22T07:24:30-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Benny Hinn: should there be a law?</title>
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      <description>Benny Hinn gets rich from his claims of miraculous healing. Sane Christians know he&apos;s a fake.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Wealthy faith-healer Benny Hinn is on his way to Australia. Not everyone is welcoming the miracle man with open arms.St Paul&#39;s Theological College academic dean Reverend Dr David Pascoe said a secular authority was needed to test claims of &#8220;miracle...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Programs showing miracles have disappeared from TV.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[[Nigeria&#39;s National Broadcasting Commission], the body which regulates broadcasting, says some of the miracles shown on television are false and stations can broadcast miracles only when they are verifiable. Christ Embassy, a Nigerian church where miracles are everyday happenings is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Many Orthodox Jewish women, who adhere to rules of modesty by allowing only their husbands to see their natural hair</description>
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      <title>Twelve Tribes open cafe</title>
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      <description>Cult waits for 144,000 male virgins to gather and world to end</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[While followers of messiah Elbert Eugene &#39;Yoneq&#39; Spriggs wait for the gathering of 144,000 male virgins they&#39;ve decided to open a restaurant. Considering their prior violations of child labor laws they know how to keep costs down.Members of a controversial...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>John Frum faithful fight a breakaway sect led by Fred Nasse, who calls himself Prophet Fred</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Rebelling against the aggressive proselytising of Presbyterian missionaries, dozens of villages on the island of Tanna put their faith in a mysterious outsider called John Frum. &#8230; On Tanna, islanders became convinced that John Frum was an American. They have...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Amorth performs the mysterious, ancient ritual dozens of times a week</description>
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      <description>Bogus weeping Virgin Mary in Australia</description>
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      <description>Siberian shaman&apos;s blame tremors on mummy&apos;s curse</description>
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      <description>Temple of the Sun in Tenochtitlan - the ancient citadel at the heart of Mexico City revives</description>
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      <description>Elaine Pagels on the antisemitism of Gibsons Passion of Christ</description>
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      <description>The Davinci Code and Passion of Jesus Christ have made Mary Magdalene a pop cult and popular culture icon</description>
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      <description>The Da Vinci Code and The Passion of the Christ boost sales of bad Christian books</description>
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      <description>Flordia business offices windows thought to show image of the Virgin Mary destroyed</description>
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      <title>Yet another crying Virgin Mary</title>
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      <description>Statue of Holy Virgin Mary Mother of God said to be crying, shedding tears</description>
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      <title>Kiln owner sacrifices boy</title>
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      <description>Indian brick kiln owner sacrifices boy to save business</description>
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      <description>Indians afraid to to send or respond to chain emails from gurus</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ &#8220;The internet gives me sleepless nights these days,&#8221; confesses 17-year-old Nisha Lakhina, &#8220;I&#8217;m scared that it could harm my parents, break my relationships and ruin my career.&#8221; No, Nisha isn&#8217;t a net addict or paranoid. Ten days ago, she...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Antichrist: vegetarian pacifist</title>
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      <description>Cardinal Giacomo Biffi,  Gustaaf Joos antichrist is philanthrophist, most gays are really perverts</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This great theologian is on the shortlist of possible next Roman pontiffs: Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 71, said that the modern Antichrist, identified in the Book of Revelation as a seven-headed beast, was most likely now disguised as a philanthropist supporting...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Voodoo dust in the Magic City</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/voodoo_dust_in_the_magic_.php</link>
      <description>Miami lawyer claims his trial influenced by voodoo dust from Santeria cult</description>
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      <title>News flash: Saddam Hussein not Antichrist</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/news_flash_saddam_hussei.php</link>
      <description>Many stupid Christian Fundamentalists thought Saddam Hussien might be the Antichrist predicted in the Book of Revelation</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Fundamentalists are always pointing to someone as The Antichrist. It wasn&#39;t too long ago that Saddam Hussein was considered by some Bible-prophecy students to possibly be the final &#8220;man of sin&#8221; and global dictator. As late as March of this...]]></content:encoded>
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      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/loopy_our_lady_of_guadalu.php</link>
      <description>Bogus, fake, fraud, silly miracle painting</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Happy 471st anniversary of the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe. [Joe Nickell] says the most recent research debunking the miracle comes from restoration expert Jose Sol Rosales, who in 2002 stepped forward with evidence that showed the image was...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>North Carolina&apos;s demon blasters</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/north_carolinas_demon_bl.php</link>
      <description>Crazed Christians scream at or blast demons by praying loudly at children</description>
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      <title>Stage magic isn&apos;t Satanic</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/stage_magic_isnt_satanic.php</link>
      <description>Stupid preacher says stage magic is of the Devil and Satanic</description>
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      <title>Graven image required for driver&apos;s license</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/graven_image_required_for.php</link>
      <description>Sect thinks driver&apos;s license photos are a violation of second commandment</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[God may damn drivers license photos but in paranoid 21st America DMVs demand them. The Berkeley man&#39;s objections stem from his religious beliefs, which he says are based on his adherence to the Molokan Church, a sect that follows strict...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Mormons buy souls of dead Russians</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/mormons_buy_souls_of_dead.php</link>
      <description>Souls of dead Russians bought for posthumous batptism and conversion to Mormonism</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Who will buy? Who would like to sample my supply? Who&#39;s prepared to pay the price, For a trip to paradise? - Cole PorterMoney can&#39;t buy you love another song said but I guess it can buy you dead converts....]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>TV preachers still find believers</title>
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      <description>Wacky televangelists, silly television preachers, gullible Christians, Christian gullibility</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A look at 21st century televangelism and the god-craving&#39;s insatiable gullibility. One moment, men like the PTL Club&#39;s Jim Bakker and television&#39;s Jimmy Swaggart seemed bigger than life, supermen who had been blessed with an uncanny ability to attract followers...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-11-20T07:05:31-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>In the Devil&apos;s Snare</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/in_the_devils_snare.php</link>
      <description>In the Devil&apos;s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, Mary Beth Norton </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A review of In the Devil&#39;s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton The residents of Essex County had particularly strong reasons to imagine that the witchcraft within had links to the Indian menace without. The...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Academic study of Ganesh called hate crime</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/academic_study_of_ganesh_.php</link>
      <description>Ganesa, Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings by Paul Courtright upsets Hindus</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Never hurts to be reminded that Fundamentalist Christians aren&#39;t the only people who expect special protection for their nutty theology. WASHINGTON - Eighteen years after publishing a study of the Hindu god Ganesha, a US university professor is under fire...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Hole to hollow earth at North Pole</title>
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      <description>World Top Secret: Our Earth is Hollow, Rodney Cluff, seek hole at North Pole</description>
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      <description>Christian faith does it hinder or help healing and health?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Last thing I&#39;d want is a doctor who prayed for me. Most people disagree.Dr. Suki Tepperberg, a family physician in Dorchester, Mass., has concerns about those who put too much faith in God&#8217;s will. One of her patients, a Jehovah&#8217;s...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Voodoo is expensive</title>
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      <description> Baron Samedi, the god of the dead, and to his lascivious, sardonic offspring, Gede</description>
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      <description>Virgin Mary cult: Reina y Senora de Todo la Creado in San Isidro de Grecia, Costa Rica</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Seated in his quarters at the back of the &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; in San Isidro de Grecia, clothed in black vestments, Prado gives every appearance of being what he claims he is &#8212; a priest. Only one element seems askew: [Alfredo] Prado&#39;s...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes</title>
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      <description>Dawn Perlmutter&apos;s book is the first complete resource to assist in crime scene identification, criminal investigation and prosecution of religious terrorism and occult crime</description>
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      <description>Aghori Sadhus use tantra to seek siddhi.</description>
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      <description>Pope John Paul II is in a mad hurry to maker Mother Teresa a saint before he kicks the bucket.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Looks like picking on a nice old lady, doesn&#39;t it? Maybe her actions weren&#39;t really that nice. &#8230; It used to be that a person could not even be nominated for &#8220;beatification,&#8221; the first step to &#8220;sainthood,&#8221; until five years...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>West African superstition of sorcerers who can steal a man&apos;s penis</description>
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      <description>Cults battle to control Veronica Lueken&apos;s shrine and prophetic legacy.</description>
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      <description>Mary&apos;s statue doesn&apos;t weep when kept isolated.</description>
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      <description>Voodoo in New Orleans: from candles to money spray.</description>
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      <description>Unbound: A Practical Guide to Deliverance From Evil Spirits</description>
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      <description>Rabbi&apos;s Kabbalah scam is big money maker</description>
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      <description>2012 and the Mayan apocalypse myth, Matthew Lovett as world leader</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Jason Laughlin in the Courier-Post writes of mass murderer manqu&eacute; Matthew Lovett.Lovett wrote of a battle with demons beginning in 2012. Lovett and Jackson would ascend to power as world leaders because of their abilities to fight demons that he...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Skull theft may be linked to Palo Mayombe</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Terri Sanginiti and Maureen Milford in The News Journal report on skull thefts in Wilmington Delaware.The thieves left the way they came, taking only Bradford&#39;s skull. Left behind was the woman&#39;s headless skeleton sitting upright, Wilmington police said. &#8230; Police...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Religion as mental illness.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Matthew Leeming reviews Asne Seierstad&#39;s The Bookseller of Kabul.For those of us who think that religious belief is a mental illness, this book provides plenty of clinical detail. The symptoms in Afghanistan are pretty florid. &#8216;Anyone who prints Rushdie&#8217;s books...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Satguru Maharajji Nigerian cult leader claims to be living perfect master and lives by Guru Maharajji Time.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Philip Sherwell visits Satguru Maharajji a self-proclaimed living perfect master whose cult recently faced charges of human sacrifice.The cult, which has followers in Britain, operates on GMT (Guru Maharajji Time), which is two hours ahead of everyone else&#39;s GMT (Greenwich...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Boys sexual organs used in occult ceremonies, black magic &amp; male genitals.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A Brazilian sect leader and five others accused of kidnapping boys in a remote Amazon town, cutting off their genitals and sacrificially killing them have gone on trial.Reuters: Sect leader on trial in mutilation murders The trial has begun in...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Popular culture &amp; American exorcisms</title>
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      <description>Do horror movies inspire exorcisms? American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty reviewed.
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Kevin Christopher in The Skeptical Inquirer reviews Michael Cuneo&#39;s American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty.Although his opening chapters focus mostly on exorcism as a Roman Catholic ritual, Cuneo is quick to disabuse readers of the common assumption...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Saddam Husein&apos;s &apos;personal sorcerer. Wizards in Iraq, superstitious president.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An Associated Press interview with Saddam Hussein&#39;s &#39;personal sorcerer.&#39;Saddam is still protected, he says, by a pair of magic-infused golden statues. The deposed president speaks daily with the king and queen of genies, the same ones who provided the information...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Horror movies make people think they&apos;ve been possessed by demons and call for an exorcist.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A study shows that after watching horror movies like The Exorcist more people believe they&#39;ve been taken over by demons. Loftus is publishing a report after studying demonic possession. It seems that the power of suggestion is a strong one,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Ancient Aramaic from the Moon.</description>
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      <description>Awaiting Christ sect Nokulunga Fipaza </description>
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      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/dopey_yoga_retreat.php</link>
      <description>A skeptic witnesses superstitious folly at a yoga retreat.</description>
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      <title>Indian girl marries dog</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/indian_girl_marries_dog.php</link>
      <description>A nine-year-old Indian girl has married a dog in a special ceremony designed to ward off evil spirits.
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;The priest told the girl&#39;s family, who are poor tribal farmers, that because new teeth appeared on her upper gums rather her lower gums, it was a bad omen and she would die,&#8221; said government welfare officer MM Rana.&#8220;The priest...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-06-23T10:51:36-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Traditional knowledge has no value to science outside of anthropology</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/traditional_knowledge_has.php</link>
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      <description>Israel says ‘James Ossuary’ is a fake</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Christian artefact racket is as old as the religion itself. Kings used to give one another fragments of Jesus&#39; foreskin. Considering that Jesus would&#39;ve been circumsize as a baby if forskin he would&#39;ve been the most ungodly well-hung man...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Murder by exorcism</title>
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      <description>Walter Zepeda murdered by Diego Zepeda-Cordera  and Missionary Church of Christ who thought he was possessed by the devil.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pentecostal church members murdered a 19 year old in trying to save him from the devil.So Diego Zepeda-Cordera called his friend Alex Osegueda, a fellow member of the Missionary Church of Christ and a man of equal devotion, to help...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-05-25T09:59:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>Folly of Japanese Pana Wave cult waiting for Armageddon</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Robert Pigott writes about Japan&#39;s Pana Wave cult which expects a 10th planet to bring doomsday.To protect themselves from electro-magnetic waves allegedly directed at them by Communist aggressors, members of Pana Wave drape themselves - and surrounding trees, bushes or...]]></content:encoded>
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      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/satmar_hassidim_fight_ove.php</link>
      <description>Superstitious Brooklyn Hasidic Satmar Jews fight over Shabbat eruv</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[AP&#39;s Michael Weissenstein reports on a fight for control among the Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. One Jewish columnist even called for a stoning.Orthodox Jews are barred from carrying anything outside their homes on Shabbat because rabbis say...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Superstitious people use incense and herbs to fight SARS.</description>
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      <title>Bible code postdictions</title>
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      <description>Kabbalistic Bible codes superstitious numeralogical postdictions.</description>
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      <dc:date>2003-05-15T08:16:19-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty</title>
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      <description>Sociologist writes of American Exorcism Expelling Demons </description>
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      <description>Richard Lee on A.N. Wilson&apos;s God&apos;s Funeral</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Many in these groups conclude that the world is in the midst of global and national upheaval, the U.S. Constitution is no longer respected, the U.N. is an effort at global domination and socialism, that the United States will...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Evil spirits, Satan.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[John Porter decided to tie up Saucier; one unsuccessful try with a belt and later with nylon straps around her hands and feet. He also pinned down her arms and had her watch tapes of a television evangelist. He was...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Messages encoded in the Old Testament provide clues to  Osama bin Laden. </description>
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      <description>Skver sect of Hasidim in New Square, 30 miles north of Manhattan, believe God has revealed himself in fish form. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[&#39;People come, sometimes with mediums who claim to speak German, and they ask for all sorts of things,&#39; he says.&#39;They pray for health. They ask for Toto and 4D numbers.&#39; &#8230; Local folklore goes that the girl was the daughter...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Friend fears dead man&apos;s faith did him in</title>
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      <title>Pushing the Apocalypse</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A look at assorted &#39;end time&#39; superstitions.Nation of Islam We have been living in the age of Armageddon since 1914. At the end, a trumpet will blow. God and his scientists, living in a UFO-like planet, will drop pamphlets as...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Newton: The Dark Heretic</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin have been quite common, even in these godless times, and it seems that travel arrangements granted her from on high have now been broadened to include Australian beaches rather than just obscure Portuguese villages or...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>In the Shadow of the Moons</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Local religious leaders are warning the public to be &#8220;extremely sceptical&#8221; of healing claims made by one of America&#39;s most controversial television evangelists, who brings his flamboyant ministry to Hong Kong tonight. By yesterday morning the five thousand free admission...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Always best to add a heaping of salt to stories about Satanism. Can&#39;t see why it wouldn&#39;t be as appealing as other species of nonsense though.Moscow alone has about 15 Satanist groups , including the Black Angel, the Left Path,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Before human sacrifice, a notice is usually given, couched thus: "Anybody whose goat, sheep, or fowl is missing, should look for it, but if human being is missing do not look for him or her". At this point people who...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[From the AP review of the latest edition of J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American ReligionIf the Episcopal Church won't do, worshippers can move leftward into the Metaphysical Episcopal Church or Free Episcopal Church, or rightward into dozens of breakaways...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Exorcist fair brings ghostly, ghastly rituals</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[BETUL: A fast, a dip in icy waters, a long walk and, all else failing, a severe beating with brooms and slippers -- all in the name of expelling "evil spirits".This is what hundreds of girls and young women between...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Fear man is using witchcraft to induce lions to kill</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the last 10 years, several members of Faith Tabernacle Congregation have faced criminal charges when their children died or became gravely ill.Only God, they say, can heal. Physicians and medicine are forbidden....]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[BLANTYRE, Malawi - A radio journalist was arrested Sunday for interviewing a man who claimed he was attacked by vampires, under a Malawi government campaign to quash vampire rumors.Charged with broadcasting false news that could lead to public unrest...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Bishop Forgot My Exorcism</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Mighty forgetful of him.A woman in a black ski mask stood quietly for two hours in front of the white wood-sided Norwich Diocese office building Wednesday, holding a sign printed with that statement.Woman says diocese neglected her demon possession...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Satanists accused of Cannibalism in Germany</description>
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      <title>Amway wins a big round on satanism</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ada-based Amway Corp. has won an important round in a legal struggle with Procter & Gamble over accusations that Amway spread false rumors that P&G was involved with satanism.Devil-worship rumors began linking P&G's former crescent-shaped logo depicting a bearded man...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Danish tabloid B.T. comments on a &#8220;bizarre episode&#8221; in which Greenland's most senior civil servant paid his personal &#8220;healer&#8221; to drive evil spirits out of the government's offices in the island's capital, Nuuk.A growing Greenlandic fundamentalism...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Communities in northern Tanzania along the shores of Lake Victoria are stepping up their efforts to eradicate the murder of old people, mainly women, who have been accused of witchcraft. The women often become targets of attacks when traditional healers...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A magical brown cow has been giving Africans a healing lick in return for gifts. The legend of the bovine medic started when he escaped from a pen and approached a teacher. "I was having problems with my legs and...]]></content:encoded>
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