Witches, Warlocks, Welfare, Whatever

"Mita Bai, 34, will never forget the morning of May 6, 2005. It was 8 a.m. in the morning when a group of three men and six women came to her house with their allegations, branding her as, 'a witch.' As an attack against her broke out, she cried out for help, but no one heard or heeded her pleas. Instead, she was dragged from her home, stripped of all her clothing, and nearly hung from a tree.

What was her crime? She was accused of bringing misfortune to others in the village as a practitioner of 'Dayan Pratha,' known in rural India as the practice of witchcraft."

-- Shuriah Niazi (whose last name - since I can believe what I want to believe - is a cool anagram for "I, nazi") not informing this woman to call herself a "Wiccan" - which takes the sting out of witchcraft, every time, making it cock-suckingly exotic (believe me: I know) - at least here, in America, where (not only could she have gotten all of us to pay for her "free" healthcare but) NewAge fruitcakes are still trying to get the TruthOut.