A 45-year-old woman in Paraguay, who was suspected of practicing witchcraft, was shot with arrows, beaten brutally and then burned alive by members of her own tribe.

On the Day of Ashura, a boy in the Indian state of Mumbai had a gash cut into his head as part of a Shiite Muslim ritual that commemorates the death of Mohammad’s grandson.

Stillwater resident and religious zealot Isaiah Zoar Marin was arrested late October after he killed his 19-year-old friend, Jacob Crockett, for apparently practicing witchcraft.

A Christian woman in Pakistan has been sentenced to hang for making blasphemous comments about Prophet Mohammed during an argument with her Muslim neighbors.

Police in London have looked into more than 30 cases of child abuse over the last year that have been traced back to belief in spirit possession and witchcraft.