In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where many people believe in witchcraft, allegations occasionally flare into violence and death.
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Catalonia has recently pardoned up to 1,000 people, mostly women, who were accused of “witchcraft” as late as the eighteenth century. But as some countries atone for their past, “witch hunts” are still common in other parts of the world.
The writer grew up in the town of the infamous witch trials, where Halloween was the most important holiday of the year of her childhood. For the first time in more than a decade in France, this globetrotting sorceress will be flying in to spend October 31 among her native flock.
Government crime numbers show that since 2001, more than 2,000 ‘witches’ — most of them women — have been killed.