Freemason sorcery charges a reminder that sorcery fears persist.

Childhood role-model or sinister threat to civilization?

 When 14 Freemasons were arrested in Fiji for practicing sorcery, it may have seemed like a once in a lifetime over-reaction by one third-world country. The police chief on the island of Denerau said they were being investigated for “allegedly practicing sorcery” after superstitious villagers reported their “sinister” activities and accompanied the police in a raid that should have stopped being possible two hundred years ago. Confiscated from the masons by the Fijian police were wands, compasses, and a skull. Fortunately, the prime minister intervened on behalf of these tourists, and they were released after a difficult night in jail.

Unfortunately, fear of sorcery is alive and well around the world.
In that rising Asian nuclear power India, numerous people have been murdered in the last four years because people suspected sorcery deaths.   A man in Assam was killed and his arms chopped into pieces by unidentified assailants for allegedly practicing witchcraft, officials say.
Papua New Guinea has seen an epidemic of witch-burning. Although the witch-burning is not legal, the culture is so imbibed with magic that as recently as 1976, the government recently passed a Sorcery Act, recognizing sorcery as valid.
In the Solomon Islands, three men allegedly engaged in the ritual stabbing of a pagan priest, because they suspected him of sorcery.
In the enlightened and westernized United Arab Emirates, a soccer player was been dropped from his squad late last year after he was detained by police for witchcraft after he apparently fraternized with two witches.
To be fair, Fijians apparently hate Evangelical prayer as much as those sorcerer masons, because 27 men were arrested for violence in protest against an Assemblies of God prayer meeting. Two of them were arrested for rape associated with the prayer meeting.
Here in the U.S., we are making progress. The sixth Harry Potter movies is the first not to face demonstrations that it encourages sorcery in American children.