India university to teach doctors Ghost Studies
Source: BBC A prestigious Indian university is offering a certificate course to teach doctors how to treat people who claim to see or be possessed by ghosts. The six-month course […]
Ghost ‘sightings’ as explained by science
Source: Yahoo By Beth Greenfield “Ghosts are real” is an extremely common belief – for example, one 45 percent of Americans have, according to a recent YouGov poll. But what about everyone […]
The albino who confronted a witchdoctor
Source: BBC By Vibeke Venema BBC World Service Stephane Ebongue fled Cameroon because of the colour of his skin – his albinism made him a target for those who believe […]
Thousands of women, accused of sorcery, tortured and executed in Indian witch hunts
The Washington Post: by Terence McCoy — In 2005, Pusanidevi Manjhi was branded a witch and tortured for four days by a powerful landowning family in the village Palani, in the Jharkhand state of India. (Rama Lakshmi/The Washington Post) If it began like the others, the first sign that Saraswati Devi would […]