Joined: 21 Dec 2012 Age: 49 Gender: Male Posts: 394 Location: Switzerland
04 Feb 2018, 8:31 am
The United Nations recently held its first expert workshop on witchcraft. In 2018, witchcraft is still a popular accusation levelled at people who "don't fit in", particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and among African diaspora communities. Thought of as either witches or bewitched, many of these children and adults are more likely on the autistic spectrum.
I had sometimes wondered when the news reported a murdered child's body being found and the child was from one of those backgrounds if the poor child was autistic and had been murdered by his family or community in the ignorant superstition that the child was a witch or was "Possessed".