Word: witchingly
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...Weather Bureau, she scurried to the footlights and said: "I don't know what the hell to do. It's one of those nights that's driving me nuts." After 15 minutes the clouds cleared away. "They'll think I'm a witch," said Minnie...
...Witch doctors and nationalist prophets have confused and corroded the congregation. Recently, one of the local splinter-sect "messiahs" announced that he meant to establish headquarters on the island, and the missionary priests resorted to a theatrical gesture. They divided the nave down the center with a row of benches, then called on all who dared deny the church to remain on the far side of the barrier. For seconds no one stirred. At last some of the oldest members of the congregation moved to the other side, and slowly, most of the rest followed...
...only a temporary victory. All over Africa there is a revolt against Christianity-sometimes as xenophobic nationalism, sometimes as a reversion to witch craft and tribal rituals, sometimes as a corruption of Christian teaching in splinter sects, often as an upsurge of Islam with its tolerance of polygamy and a theology far less demanding than Christianity's. Last week, in the monthly York Diocesan leaflet Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey. Archbishop of York and Primate of England,* published an alarmed eyewitness account of the crisis. Writing from the town of Lilongwe (pop. 350 whites and 5,000 Negroes) in Nyasaland...
...safely visit some of his own mission stations because he was associated with the unpopular Monckton Commission to study the federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia. In the course of his investigations, Dr. Shepherd also learned that one of his lay preachers and elders was on trial for murdering a "witch" and that the house of his church's education secretary had been stoned...
...depths of nature also rise religious images and rituals of uncanny beauty and effectiveness. At one point the camera sits in a ring of savages inside a narrow, smoky lodge of woven vines, and watches a witch doctor fling a bag of oracular bones on the earthen floor and read their patterns as Confucius read the sacred stalks of yarrow. At another it investigates the religion of the pangolin, "the animal no one may hurt," an anteater that looks like a waddling artichoke and possesses some of the metaphysical properties of the rose: an image, for the Christian mystics...