The REALL News - August 1998

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <h1 align="center"><img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54">The REALL News<img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54"></h1> <p align="center"><i>"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi</i></p> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><b>Volume 6 Issue 6</b></td> <td align="right" width="50%"><b>August 1998</b></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h2 align="center">In This Issue</h2> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%"><font size="2"><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a><br> - David Bloomberg</font><p><font size="2"><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a><br> - Bob Ladendorf</font></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="bullets-into-water.html">Bullets into Water: The Sorcerers of Africa</a>,<br> by Richard Petraitis</font></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="tarot-scam.html">The Tarot Scam, -or- Cold (Frosty) Readings</a>,<br> by Derek Rompot</font></p> <p><a href="greta-alexander-dies.html"><font size="2">"Psychic" Greta Alexander Dies</font></a></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></font></p> <p><font size="2"><a href="cover.html">Cover</a></font></td> <td valign="top" width="67%"><div align="center"><center><table border="1"> <tr> <td width="100%"><h2 align="center">Bullets into Water: The Sorcerers of Africa</h2> <p align="center"><b>by Richard Petraitis</b></p> <p>Across Africa, purported sorcerers and sorceresses are killed by rural mobs or executed by governmental decree for the practice of magic. For centuries, a belief in magic has pervaded the continent of Africa, despite the often tragic consequences of magical thinking. As many African nations struggle with independence and modernization, civil wars sparked by ethnic hatreds have raged in lands where the belief in men of magic remain strong. During different periods of history, warfare has been waged by soldiers trusting the supernatural protection bestowed on them by sorcerers and self-appointed prophets. The reality, called battle, has provided students of history with accounts of the tragedy of spells and charms when employed against modern military arms. The Colonial Era and our present century dashed the sorcerer's claim to exercise control over nature, with the sad dramas of Africa's battlefields.<a href="bullets-into-water.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p>   </body>