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Two troubling international incidents emerged from Dubai last week. Firstly, police detained a woman who was begging while purportedly employing a talisman to sway strangers into giving her money. Secondly, unrelatedly, authorities at Dubai International Airport apprehended a traveler accused of trafficking items associated with witchcraft and sorcery.
A man in Houston Texas allegedly shot two family members who, reports say, he thought were using witchcraft to place a curse on him.
An Iowa man is in custody and accused of murdering his mother who he says was practicing witchcraft.
Storm Faerywolf talks about how The Witchcraft and Occult Media Awards – The Witchies! – came to be and invites TWH readers to participate in voting for the best in Witchy and occult media.
At the end of it, I know that the projects I do take on – be they jars of herbs or small rituals, necklaces made of certain stones or clothes woven just so – are few and far between. If I light a candle and say a few words, they are more likely to be a prayer than an incantation. Surely that’s not Witchcraft.