Sentence examples for witchcraft accusations from inspiring English sources

Hayley reports AIDS produces the kind of dying that "lend[s itself] to witchcraft accusations", which can result in torture of accused women and, on occasions, early death [ 69].

In several Central African countries, in particular, there are now alarming numbers of killings of adults accused of being 'sorcerers' and a growing recent phenomenon of witchcraft accusations against children and adolescents.

From a child protection perspective, witchcraft accusations against children are a form of child abuse.

Sewall served on a court appointed by the governor of Massachusetts in 1692 to examine the witchcraft accusations in Salem.

HelpAge and its local NGO partners have developed practical interventions to tackle some of the root causes of witchcraft accusations.

Anthropologists have identified the combination of crises as the underlying cause for the epidemics of witchcraft accusations against children.

The skeptic was a marked man; he could count on being rewarded with a witchcraft accusation.

The witchcraft accusation brings shame in a society where belief in sorcery "was pervasive and still is pervasive," according to Lamin Sanneh, a Gambian-born history professor at Yale University.

After the witchcraft accusation went viral, villagers stopped speaking to her altogether, and their children refused to sit or play with her kids at school.

The conflict was finally settled last month after Paiboon brokered a compromise: Lek agreed to drop the lawsuit if the villagers promised to put the witchcraft accusation behind them as well.

"When someone has more power, they can get people to agree with them," is all that Paiboon Nakthippiman, the new district officer in town, would say of Lek's witchcraft accusation.