Hi Noah<br><br>Memory is fuzzy, but wasn&#39;t there a similar article last year or the year before in the UK Guardian -- or was that the Independent? -- about something like this being uncovered in Britian itself involving West African practioners?<br>
<br>Also, is there anything published on Voudon veves and ruhaniya sigils that you may know about?<br><br>N<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Noah Gardiner <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1205%26L%3DACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1500615%26B%3D--bcaec554de620bbf4b04c06884f5%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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      Guardian: </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/briton-arrested-thailand-babies-corpses" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/briton-arrested-thailand-babies-corpses</a><br>

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      &quot;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... </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:14px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Some of the
      remains had been covered in gold leaf, said police, apparently for
      use in black magic rituals... </span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:14px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Black magic
      rituals are still practised in<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/thailand" title="More from
      guardian.co.uk on Thailand" style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;padding:0px;line-height:18px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,86,137);text-transform:none;font-size:14px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">Thailand</a><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:14px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">, where
      street-side fortune tellers offer ceremonies to reverse bad luck.</span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:14px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">&quot;<br>

      <br>
      Thoughts? I have to say that the part about Thai fortune-tellers
      practicing &#39;black magic rituals&#39; seems a bit non-sequitur to me,
      though it&#39;s hard to know much from the scanty details in the
      article. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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      - Noah<br>
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    <pre cols="72">-- 
Noah Gardiner
Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor</pre>
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