Posted on 01/08/2008 12:52:44 PM PST by Scythian
DES MOINES, Iowa — A man has been charged with the stabbing and strangulation murder of his two stepdaughters in what police are calling a "spell gone bad" in the family's Sioux City, Iowa, home.
Police Lt. Marti Reilly said Harris had been performing "some strange ritual" and told officers he cast a spell that had gone bad. Reilly said he could offer no other details on how the girls were killed.
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Bootleg copies of Harry Potter movies?
it’s a made up curse from the Harry Potter books.
You’d be amazed how many are here. Burlington, in the SE corner, had more witches per capita in the 70’s and 80’s than anywhere in the U.S. I believe. I don’t know about now.
Professor Helen A. Berger, author of three books on witches, told the Sioux City Journal she doubted anyone claiming to have killed children while casting a spell is a true practitioner of witchcraft.
No, it's not misunderstood. Ritual killings are part of it.
The only thing about it that's misunderstood is that it really is evil and that misunderstanding is due to the lies promoted by the likes of Berger.
That alone is an indication, along with the *ritual* part.
Booze + Meth is my guess.
It’s a Harry Potter thing.(Fictional character) The Cruciatus curse, also called the Torture Curse, makes the recipient feel like all of their bones are on fire and about to explode. Many who have received it beg for death.
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Not anymore, one would think.
Uh-huh.
Witchcraft doesn’t exist, except in the deranged minds of people who think they are witches. These two girls were stabbed and strangled — tragic, evil, but very real-world causes of death.
There are plenty of people who believe in witchcraft — and some who do stupid and evil things in the name of witchcraft — but they just believe in a lie.
Except that, as the “expert” pointed out, there’s no standard of doctrines/practices for Wicca, and no widely recognized organizations to which one belongs or doesn’t belong. Also, none of the small, self-styled groups calling themselves witches or Wiccans, nor any of the published authors of “how to” books on this type of religion on which those groups tend to base their practices, advocate murder or human “sacrifice”. The result is that anyone can imagine themselves to be a “witch”, but unless they’re active in a group with shared practices, beyond a pal or two, or privately following practices that are known to be followed by significant numbers of people calling themselves witches or Wiccans, it’s a meaningless claim. It’s even more meaningless for anyone to hear about an incident like this and conclude that there must be some connection to the modern practice of witchcraft/Wicca as a religion. If this guy had been involved with anything resembling a wiccan group, it would have been steering him away, not towards this sort of insane violence.
Crazy is crazy, and when someone does something like this, they are clearly crazy, and any ramblings they make shouldn’t be taken as having any connection to reality. Did you catch today’s story about the guy who cut off his hand, microwaved it, and called 911? He told police he did it because he believed he “bore the mark of the Beast”. The fact that this is clearly a reference to a passage in the book of Revelation, and presumably also to the passage in Matthew re cutting off your hand if it causes you to sin, doesn’t mean that Christianity is a dangerous religion that people should be careful not to get involved in, because it’s apt to lead to actions like this. It means the guy is crazy and either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about any brand of Christianity practiced by anybody else.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Microwaved-Hand.html
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