Bhubaneswar, Aug 2 (IANS) A 22-year-old man was arrested in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district for hacking an elderly couple to death on suspicion of witchcraft, police said Saturday. The incident took place at Dhanusahi village, over 300 km from state ...

There is a Chinese belief that one should watch out for bad luck during August, the so-called "ghost month." Based on the 2014 Chinese lunar calendar, "ghost month" this year began July 27 and will end on August 24. During this period, people are ...

Jermey and Pamela are now in the care of other kin in Austin, who watched the cousins' proceedings in the standing-room-only courtroom of Immigration Judge Anibal Martinez. Judge Martinez rescheduled the cousins' cases after their lawyer, Linda ...

Detectives at the Rumuolumeni Divisional Police Station in Port Harcourt, Rivers State are investigating a case involving three persons who allegedly transformed to cats. One of the suspects is a twelve-year-old boy simply identified as John who had ...

Is strange behaviour due to witchcraft or is it a natural occurrence? Is uncanny attitude a diseased manifestation that can be processed through prayers or an occurrence that can be explained without reference to magic and mysticism? British historian ...

THE Matero Local Court heard how a 58 -year-old man of Chunga Township went to a witchdoctor to prove his innocence after his sister accused him of bewitching her daughter. This is in a case where Cletus Kampamba sued Samson Banda, 50, a traditional ...

Baripada, August 2: In the latest witchcraft-related murder, an elderly tribal couple met a gory end in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. A superstitious-bound man hacked to death the couple – Ankura Purty (65) and Mukta Purty (60) – from Dhanusahi village ...

THE seventh lunar month on the traditional Chinese calendar is called Ghost Month. This year it runs from July 27 to August 24. On the first day of the month, which this year nearly coincided with the annual State of the Nation Address, the Gates of ...

... she's working on connecting with two groups of people interested in the topic. The Alaska Paranormal Network, she hopes, will be a place where people can share stories and sightings. The Paranormal Explorers of Alaska, or PEAK, will take it a step ...

Clothes driers are rare in Taiwan, so many people hang their laundry on clotheslines to dry. But during ghost month, this could lead wandering spirits to mistake the clothes for living people whom they are free to posses. Nobody wants a pair of haunted ...

Mr. Barker's “Incredible Hypnotist” show is new to the fair this year. Audience members packed the bleachers for the 6 p.m. show and were treated to non-stop laughs as the participants acted goofy doing everything from falling on their neighbors seated ...