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Stories of Magic: Witches! Burning Schools!

A volunteer in Manyara told me that one of the girls' dorms at a school burned down.  The school blamed an electrical short and moved all the displaced students into an empty classroom, which has also now burned down.  At the same time of night, almost exactly, that the dorm burned down.  This classroom has no electricity.  Candles and lanterns are banned, which means obviously that no one has them, QED witchcraft.

2 comments:

  1. Don't laugh at them. Even people who are considered highly intelligent, civilized, industrialized, what have you, have problems distinguishing correlation & coincidence from cause & effect!

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  2. I really shouldn't, but such reasons piss my goose, which is my new favoritest expression ever, courtesy of:
    http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402.html

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