Noumenal News

Casting spells and the study and practice of witchcraft is nonviolent and often misunderstood, experts say.
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., 25, of Sioux City told investigators he was casting a spell that “had gone bad” when his stepdaughters, ages 8 and 10, died Sunday. He faces two counts of first-degree murder.
Professor Helen A. Berger, author of […]

A mother mourns the loss of her two daughters. Their step-father is behind bars tonight accused of their murder.
The sisters were found dead in a second floor room of their Nebraska Street home. Fire crews discovered the bodies while responding to a fire call at the home Sunday afternoon. It was initially ruled suspicious.
But […]

The continuing battle over a nativity scene at the Olean Municipal Building took another twist Monday night, when someone ran over a 5-foot-tall Wiccan pentacle set up next to the nativity scene.
City officials confirmed that someone ran over the pentacle at about 10:15 p.m. Monday, and police are investigating the act of vandalism as a […]

Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary.
An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.
In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples […]

Government and military computer systems in the UK are coming under sustained attack from China and other countries, a major new study gives warning today.
The closely-read annual Virtual Criminology Report, which draws on interviews with senior staff at organisations including the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Nato and the FBI, says that the UK has entered […]

Police investigating the murder of a Dundee woman attended a seance in an attempt to find her killer, a former senior detective has told a court.
Norman Robertson said officers visited a medium’s house the month after Elizabeth McCabe’s body was found in Templeton Woods in 1980.
But he told the High Court in Edinburgh: “I never […]

RIYADH, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed on Friday an Egyptian man convicted of “sorcery”, desecrating the Muslim holy book and adultery, the official news agency said.
The Saudi Press Agency said Mustafa Ibrahim was put to death in Riyadh in a controversial case which has drawn criticism from rights activists.
It said Ibrahim had been […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Carl Glatzel Jr. says he’s a happily married building contractor. The last thing he wanted was a book reviving a claim that he and his brother were under the spell of demons that led to a killing decades ago by a family acquaintance. Glatzel is suing famed psychic Lorraine Warren and […]

A Satanist who allegedly lures men to bed in order to rob them is on the loose in Gaborone.
The woman apparently uses her evil powers to extort her victims’ debit card pin numbers and loot their money from the bank.
The devil worshiping South African woman, commonly known as Tshireletso, confessed at a healing crusade organized […]

At the public library in Mount Vernon, someone waltzed off with the “Kama Sutra.”
Copies of “What’s Happening to my Body?” have vanished from Penquis Valley Middle and High School library in Milo.
Missing from the Lincoln Middle School library in Portland is a copy of “It’s Perfectly Normal.”
All three books deal with the subject of human […]