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This "Briton" thought they would bring good luck.

They are supposed to pep you up.

Chad denizens blame witchcraft.

Par for the course in the new South Africa.

Throwing babies off building in ritual is supposed to make them stronger.

“If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them should be killed."

And some would have us believe all cultures are equal.

17 Filipinos were "crucified."

Part of the cult of La Santa Muerte.

Indigenous judge's novel approach to jurisprudence.

Brought in from Cuba to be used in a Santeria ritual.

There may be as many 8 "honor crimes" every day in Britain.

How much has changed?

Inflicted more than 130 injuries on her brother before he died.

Husbands whose wives don't want polygamous relationships often resort to violence.

Imported savagery.

Immigration could bring us dhat syndrome, koro, sangue dormido, susto, and pibloktoq.

Mexican culture comes to California.

It was part of a ritual for a better harvest.

"The citizen . . . practiced acts of witchcraft and sorcery."

They wanted to hex their budget-cutting boss.

Chinese, who eat them, say they are part of their heritage.

Courtship, African style.

Zimbabwe blacks try to sacrifice a white girl.

Dispatch from Uganda, where child sacrifice has become a commercial business.

"Don't marry down. Marry out," he says.

British author likens Santa Muerte cult to Islam.

"One in four girls. . . have been affected by the practice."

"Their three sides may remind people of the Christian Holy Trinity."

Juju man was a failed asylum seeker in Britain.

Mother was not an immigrant.

Faces deportation to Haiti after serving sentence.

Sharia killing comes to Ukraine.

Girl's cuckoo beliefs get her community service instead of jail time.

Albinos "are not human, they do not die, they simply disappear."

A human sacrifice that was to calm a storm.

More proof that all cultures are equal.

They leave "offerings" that leave the beach covered with trash.

Poured rum over her granddaughter's head and set her on fire.

Women held baby down and poured olive and vinegar down his throat.

Homebrewed drink is good for what ails you.

Bear bile brings big bucks in Beijing.

Funeral will fill stadium and go on for six days.

Blacks turning to hoodoo, but find that most hoodoo merchants are white.

"Juju man" suspected of using magic to sway election.

Says neighbor "put voodoo on me."

Ghanaian says elephant tails, dried hedgehog, and chicken blood were for "spiritual purposes."

Rail project jeopardizes Canadian city's "positive energy."

And nearly 200 children.

A study of the preposterous, anti-white beliefs common among blacks.

American cheerleaders wear pants at basketball game in Istanbul.

Birds of a feather.

Half of British Pakis marry their cousins.

Asking price was $263,000.

Reported to be a Mexican custom.

The belief that a child could be a witch is a "relatively modern development."

Incarnation of Kali gets a B.

A novel way to keep a wife faithful.

Does the New York Times approve of female genital mutilation?

And we thought it had something to do with plate tectonics.

Will "simian foamy virus" be the new AIDS?

Many Indians and Chinese see a different kind of immigration problem.

White man's hair said to stop bullets.

Hindu transcendental meditation guru thinks he and Shiva are to blame.

Afrikaner teenager's killers probably took her hands sell to witch doctors.

"It only takes somebody in a family to fall ill and a child can be accused of sorcery."

Handcuffs now officially part of "African American History and Culture."

Next: Zoroastrians to win "human right" to be devoured by vultures.

A full "albino kit"--limbs, nose, tongue, ears, and genitals--costs $75,000.

Thousands of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania in hiding from body-part hunters.

Her first; his sixth.

Feeding Detroit.

Farrakhan: H1N1 flu vaccine developed to kill people.

"Blood ran down their chins and chests."

Blacks have no idea where welfare money actually comes from.