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From the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/briton-arrested-thailand-babies-corpses "A British citizen has been arrested in Bangkok on suspicion of smuggling human infant corpses for use in black magic rituals after the bodies of six babies were found in a suitcase in a hotel room, Thai police have said... Some of the remains had been covered in gold leaf, said police, apparently for use in black magic rituals... Black magic rituals are still practised inThailand <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/thailand>, where street-side fortune tellers offer ceremonies to reverse bad luck." Thoughts? I have to say that the part about Thai fortune-tellers practicing 'black magic rituals' seems a bit non-sequitur to me, though it's hard to know much from the scanty details in the article. - Noah -- Noah Gardiner Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor