He ended his life tormented by the spells and potions of a rejected former concubine who turned to witchcraft.
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms.
In the land of voodoo and witchcraft, legends and legendary disasters, it's no wonder New Orleans -and the state of Louisiana, for that matter -is rife with ghost tales.
Yes, people can still be accused of practicing witchcraft and condemned to death for it nowadays.
Tanzania's government reckons that every year several hundred of its people are lynched on suspicion of witchcraft.
Then she made some little shirts of white silk. Having learned the art of witchcraft from her mother, she sewed a magic charm into each one of them.
The woman practicing witchcraft claimed that she could conjure up the spirits of the dead.
Last year, actress Emma Watson, who plays teen witch Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" movies, is related to a 16th century woman accused of witchcraft.
The "witchcraft" line referred to Franklin's imminent departure.
As might be expected, the older and less educated respondents reported higher belief in witchcraft, but interestingly such belief was inversely linked to happiness.
In 1474, legal proceedings were instituted at Basel against a rooster accused of laying an egg for purposes of witchcraft.
And witchcraft works: mere rumours of a candidate's special powers can raise his standing.
Instead, as the case of witchcraft accusations against children shows, traditions are being reinvented and adapted to the challenges and insecurities of a globalised world.
magic rites were employed to neutralize witchcraft.
One option is to believe in witchcraft.
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