Villagers in India Hack ‘Witch’ To Death in Attempt to Appease the Hindu...
Kali is not the sweetest of Hindu deities. She’s usually depicted with tongue lolling, a garland of skulls around her neck, 4 to 10 arms flaying and dicing and chopping in a frenzy of perennial...
View ArticleTeacher Beheaded for Witchcraft; ‘A Swarm of Fireflies’ Said She’d Caused a...
Fireflies. They’re the new breadcrumbs. A female teacher was publicly tortured and beheaded by a mob of villagers in Papua New Guinea after she was accused of using sorcery against a neighbor, the...
View ArticleLittle Miss Sunshine: Follower of Breatharianism is Prepared to Die By Living...
A Seattle woman has pledged to prove her religion is real by starving herself on camera. Naveena Shine is a practitioner of Breatharianism, an obscure Eastern faith that holds that people can survive...
View ArticleReverend and Psychic Ordered to Pay Million$ for ‘Mass Grave’ Allegations...
This hasn’t been a good year for psychics, and I’m glad. First, we witnessed the high-profile flameout of Sylvia Browne, the bee-otch spiritist who inflicted unimaginable misery on the mother of...
View ArticleMeet Gohar Shahi, the Holy Man in the Moon
Wikipedia says that in Islam, the Mahdi (Guided One) is the Messiah, …the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for seven, nine or nineteen years … before the Day of Judgment … and will rid the...
View Article‘Stop Mocking Our Faith,’ Says Reader Who Believes in the Man in the Moon
I received an irate request today from a man who believes that the geography of the moon is proof that Gohar Shahi is Islam’s messiah. “Stop making a mockery out of people’s faith,” he demanded. Good...
View ArticleExorcist Buries Himself in Ritual, Accidentally Suffocates to Death
There’s no cure for this kind of crazy. A Sri Lankan man died Thursday after a bizarre and botched ritual to drive out what he thought were evil spirits from a house outside the capital, police said....
View ArticleThe Sex Lives of So-Called Godmen
There’s an interesting piece at Open The Magazine about so-called godmen (call them gurus or mystics if you want) who take sexual advantage of their disciples. One example: According to a 27-year-old...
View ArticleIceland Halts Road Project to Protect Elves
Icelandic authorities have decided to halt a highway project out of concern that the new road will displace the local elf population. Says the Independent: Elf advocates have joined forces with...
View ArticleIn New York, Man From Ivory Coast Allegedly Sodomized His Wife, Then Cut Her...
A bizarre and disturbing story, via Opposing Views: Moussa Diarra, 48, an African native, wanted to have anal intercourse with his 24-year-old wife. When she refused, he forcibly sodomized her before...
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