sorcery
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Around the world women and organizations such as AfAW, Stop Sorcery Violence in Papua New Guinea and the women's leadership nonprofit Anandi in Gujarat, India, are fighting back against witch-hunting.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2023
But being inform’d, that Netflix, together with Mr. Juſtin Willman, had releaſed a Trailer for a Televiſion Programme, in which were ſhewn many Acts of Sorcery, &c.,
From Slate • Aug. 12, 2018
No one has ever been convicted over Leniata’s death, but it prompted the PNG government to repeal the 1971 Sorcery Act which provided a defence for the murder of people accused of sanguma.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2017
Last year the government was widely praised for repealing the 1971 Sorcery Act, which recognised the accusation of sorcery as a defence in murder cases.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2014
"I do not know. Sorcery, some dark magic, there was a shadow, a shadow."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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