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5/16/2008
6:39:31 pm EDT
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Debunking Africa's Witchcraft Myth
Author: Craig and Mark Kielburger (Blog) Source: Huffington Post
Title: DEBUNKING AFRICA'S WITCHCRAFT MYTH
Eunice Kimutai doesn't believe in witches. The trouble is, some in her community do.
A retired school teacher near Tanzania's western border, Kimutai now leads the charge in her village to have people tested for HIV. It's a daunting task, as the elders in her community have taken to telling people who fall ill with the disease that they are possessed by evil spirits.
Her struggle is the kind that often makes headlines out of central and southern Africa. That's where a mixture of folklore and evangelical Christianity in some communities has spawned a fundamentalist belief in witchcraft and possession by evil spirits, one that's blurring the line between traditional medicine and extreme religion throughout the entire continent.
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| Quite. | May 17th. at 9:24:59 am EDT
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PapaRomeo (Lerwick, Scotland) - Email Me
I'm with David on this one; anthropologists have a lot to answer for.
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| THREE WORDS.... | May 17th. at 5:28:52 am EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
are severely needed over there
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
EDUCATION!
Love to all
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| Not The Same "Witchcraft" | May 16th. at 11:58:35 pm EDT
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David Eagan (Cleveland, Wisconsin) - Email Me
When they talk about "witchcraft" in Africa and India they are not talking about Wicca or Neo-Paganism. This is of the difficulty's of using the word "witch."
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