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----- OFascinating article. Here I am, a witch/magician on an academic forum full of magicians, and many non magicians, all so interested in magic we make it a life time of serious study, and practise. I have seen many amazing things, been involved in uncanny healings and experienced all sorts of phenomena, religion, numinosity, synchronicity, luck, psychism, telepathy, manifestations, insights etc etc but I still practice a form of western mystery/wise woman's magic that is but a glimpse of a shadow's shadow compared to the stuff of folklore and fairy tale. I am forever grateful to my path for the life changing experience of the Divine it has given me, and the experience of nature spirituality, and of spiritual development. But on a sheer physical level, yes, of course I'd like to fly at will, to cast off into the wind and make dream reality, and return intact. Is it possible that in the multiverse out there there are people who can do "real magic"? Are we, the rational magicians, the hiers of enlightenment, the ones who are deluded with our charts and psychologies? So, seriously, how deluded are we in all our magics, is there anyone out there lurking who can teach me to fly?(Of course I'm Wiccan so, bit like being a veggie, I would only consider flying that involves no malefica nor devilish pacts etc.)regardsMelissaMessage -----From: [log in to unmask]" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">toyin adepojuTo: [log in to unmask]" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:46 AMSubject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Fwd: ||NaijaObserver|| Self-confessed witch escapes lynching [ A REPORT FROM NIGERIA]
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From: Kay Odunaro <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 19 January 2011 07:31
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Self-confessed witch escapes lynching
The suspected witch. Photo: PATIENCE OGBO
Self-confessed witch escapes lynching
By Patience Ogbo
January 19, 2011 02:03AM
Residents of Gowon Estate area of Lagos woke early Tuesday to the startling discovery of a young lady on the roof of a three-story building.
The lady, who refused to give her name, claimed she was a witch on a mission. She further revealed that she flew from Obubra in Cross River State, to afflict her victim with epilepsy in Lagos. However, her supposed mission was not accomplished because, according to her, on reaching 4 Iwajuwa Street, dogs in the area started barking, resulting in her losing her balance in the air. The loud bang on the roof of the three-story building was said to have jolted the tenants from sleep at about 3am.
Occupants of the building, who said they mistook the sound as an explosion, could, however, not come out to ascertain the cause of the sound until 5am, when they reportedly heard a strange noise from the top of the building. The unidentified lady was thereafter brought down where she reportedly revealed her mission, following which an angry mob descended on her.
She later turned violent, throwing stones and dangerous objects. At this stage, the onlookers took to their heels, with mothers calling out to their children to leave the scene. But some brave young men were able to disarm her and were at the verge of lynching her when police officers from Gowon Estate arrived and took her away.
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Psychotic- schizophrenic woman requiring medical attention, but would now be languishing in a police cell and perhaps later to be freed to wander around or maybe to be transferred to a prison to rot there without really being charged with any offence. That is the Nigerian way.__._,_.___
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