from the BBC:
"Child 'Witch' Threat"
...HRW says some 70% of street children in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, are outcasts, after being accused of witchcraft. Specialised pastors perform ceremonies to rid children of evil spirits and they can be held for days without food and sometimes whipped to confess.
Orphans or children with step-parents are said to be especially vulnerable to accusations that their sorcery...
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"Child 'Witch' Threat"
...HRW says some 70% of street children in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, are outcasts, after being accused of witchcraft. Specialised pastors perform ceremonies to rid children of evil spirits and they can be held for days without food and sometimes whipped to confess.
Orphans or children with step-parents are said to be especially vulnerable to accusations that their sorcery...
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"It's because we failed to find happiness in poetry that we find ourselves longing for the shadow of politics."
--from "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk
reading this book now. makes me wish for the deep snows of my youth in massachusetts. snow, that dampens everything except desire and survival instinct, but even that eventually. nothing like snow to make cuddling cozier, n'est-ce pas?
--from "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk
reading this book now. makes me wish for the deep snows of my youth in massachusetts. snow, that dampens everything except desire and survival instinct, but even that eventually. nothing like snow to make cuddling cozier, n'est-ce pas?
that pic's not me, dudes. it's dave lombardo. i'm looking for a good one of me. go here to see (i'm upper right) me as a member of the ugliest band in oakland: http://www.topbrown.com/