Sorcerer suspected of using magic on school girls
20 Dec 2009, 6:58 PM
Parents on the island of Maamendhoo in Laamu atoll have accused an islander of practicing sorcery on school girls to induce fainting spells and hysteria.
Speaking to Minivan News, the parents said girls in grades nine and 10 began experiencing problems after a game of bashi earlier this year.
“Our children haven’t been able to study ever since,” said a father of two girls in the island school. “They suffer aches all over their body and they faint and have to be carried home.”
He added that some parents have transferred their children to the school in nearby Maavah, while the lives of his own daughters had been “destroyed”.
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