Georgia housewife Laura Mallory refuses to let mockery, ridicule, or common sense stand in the way of her crusade to have Harry potter books removed from her county's school libraries. Rebuffed by the county school board and the state, Mallory's raising money and soliciting "experts" for a stab at Superior Court.

The "Satanic abuse" case that set off the re-investigation and probable railroading of Father Gerald Robinson has been (ironically) dismissed.

UK citizens are angry that a man falsely accused of murder may receive more compensation than the vcictim's family. Colin Stagg was accused after a search of his apartment revealed occult books. Stagg was harassed, charged with murder, and imprisoned for a year, and police even went so far as to try to seduce a confession from him. It didn't work, and fifteen years later, a new suspect has emerged- but Colin's life is still ruined.

Is "The Craft" responsible for Satanic teenagers running amok in India? (Most likely not, but it's a strange story anyways).

Of course, all of these things seem perfectly civilized in comparison with this year's already astonishing rate of witch killings and harassment- not three weeks into the year, we have three women lynched in East Timor,and a woman beaten to death in (where else?) Jharkhand, India.