Summary
Over 14,000 children in England have been accused of witchcraft since 2015, with 2,180 cases in the past year alone, according to the National FGM Centre.
The film Kindoki Witch Boy, released on the 25th anniversary of Victoria Climbié’s death, tells Mardoche Yembi’s true story of surviving a childhood exorcism.
Climbié was tortured to death in 2000 after similar accusations. Yembi hopes the film raises awareness and helps victims.
Having read the article, it sounds like this is an issue within some of their immigrant cultures. The boy the movie is about was from the DRC.
Meanwhile, I know a number of people who were practicing Wiccans in the 1990s, but I don’t think they’ve ever been accused of witchcraft.
My wiccan high school classmate in the early 2000s sure was. Our PE/Health Education teacher was very vocal about his feelings towards witches.
Got his remit mixed up, he’s on exercise not exorcism!
Yeah, I had some goth friends in school too.
Yes there are huge populations around the world where superstition is quite extreme, and they believe witchcraft is a real thing. Haiti with their voodoo is probably the most famous, but they have similar superstitions all over Africa too.
At least it’s less malignant here, that most superstitious people believe in crystal healing and homeopathy.