I heard this on the news coming home tonight:

The English Govt. is considering granting a posthumous pardon to the
last English woman arrested for practicing witchcraft. She was arrested
in early 1942. It seems that she held a seance in which she is supposed
to have contacted the spirt of a British sailor who claimed he was
killed when the British battleship _Barham_ was torpedoed and sunk in
the Med. The British war-time govt hadn’t announce the sinking yet and
the women was arrested as a security risk and jailed for 18 months!

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Steve Alvin
Dept. of Social Sciences
Illinois Valley Community College

salvin@ocslink.com

“I have snatched my share of joys from the grudging hand of fate
as I have jogged along, but never has life held for me anything
quite so entrancing as baseball.”–Clarence Darrow