"CoreyWhite" <CoreyWhite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Jul 15, 10:36 pm, "Michael Snyder" <msny...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > > > Second, we must then ask: Why, in her religious delusion, did
this
> > > > > mentally ill mother choose a crossroads in which to give her
baby
to
> > > > > Satan? The perpetrator is African American (see the second
paragraph
> > of
> > > > > newspaper re****t) and she seems to have wished to dispose of the
child
> > > > > by performing a skewed and potentilly lethal variation of a
hoodoo
> > > > > crossroads ritual, an African retentiaon in American folk magic
> > whereby
> > > > > one goes to a rural crossroads to meet the Devil and/or leave an
> > > > > offering and/or to disposes of ritual remains.
> >
> > Yeah, excuse me -- there is nothing uniquely African about the
> > association between the devil and a crossroads. In fact, it's a
> > European tradition going back to the middle ages.
>
> Do you have a reference Doctor Anonymous, or did you just not bother
> to read Cat's links? She covers that in her references.
Doctor Anonymous? I post under my own name.
Who the hell are you?
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