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Did you know people still believe in witches? I mean I should hardly be surprised, after all, people believe in all kinds of things. But witches?

News flash: Being scared of “witches” is pretty irrelevant.

A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday. (source)

Or not.

I thought everyone came to terms that the Salem witch trials were just people killing their wives and other women they didn’t want around. Really, witch back then was just another word for bitch. And to be honest, I’d probably be burned alive today if that was the case. At least, this was a one time thing.

Or not.

The country’s Post-Courier newspaper reported Thursday that more than 50 people were killed in two Highlands provinces last year for allegedly practicing sorcery.

What the fuck. Sorcery? What? What counts as sorcery?

In a well-publicized case last year, a pregnant woman gave birth to a baby girl while struggling to free herself from a tree. Villagers had dragged the woman from her house and hung her from the tree, accusing her of sorcery after her neighbor suddenly died.

or…

In recent years, as AIDS has taken a toll in the nation of 6.7 million people, villagers have blamed suspected witches — and not the virus — for the deaths

Oh, that explains why no one likes Sarah Jessica Parker! Hocus Pocus was really about her and her witchy friends spreading AIDS. Seriously, I understand displacing blame, but will someone get down there and explain about microscopes and viruses? I just don’t get it. Really, witch trials were so 1692!

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