These beliefs exist worldwide apparently...............from CNN today.
http://us.cnn.com/2015/08/04/us/florida-slayings-ritualistic-witchcraft/index.html
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Investigators found three people hammered to death with their throats slit inside a Florida home in a case that authorities said Tuesday could be linked to witchcraft.
The way the victims were killed, the position of their bodies and the timing of the slayings has detectives wondering whether a triple homicide was a "ritualistic killing" tied to last week's blue moon, a sheriff told reporters Tuesday.
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Quote from the Sheriff (from the linked article):
There are different factions of (witchcraft). While it doesn't bother me to release that particular thing,
I most assuredly do not want to defame or demean any particular practice," Morgan said.
