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Stories of Magic: How Can you Tell She is a Witch?

on Sunday, September 02, 2012
A volunteer in the Mbeya region informed me that at her school there is an increase of demon possession around exam time (funny how that works) and the students are accusing the school's matron of being a witch.  The headmaster actually allowed a forum (not to say witch trial) in which students were allowed to present their evidence for the matron being a witch.  Evidence provided included:


  • special village medicines which allow some students to see evil spirits
  • the matron prefers one of the toilets above any of the other
  • if approaching two people talking to one another, the matron walks around rather than between these people
For her own safety (some of the students would chase her with knives) the matron is switching schools.


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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM

    Critical Thinking FAIL, and in a very sad way.

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  2. RoDSeptember 5, 2012 at 4:15 PM

    Do you think if I claimed my boss was a witch, I could get a new one?

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  3. ElishebaSeptember 6, 2012 at 11:47 AM

    Only if everyone in the bureaucracy of your job fails critical thinking. Which for your sake I really hope they don't, annoying boss or no.

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