Nigerian Witches Afraid of Brooms

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"One day, I took a broom to hit him and he started crying. Then I knew he was possessed by demons... Nigerian witches are terrified of brooms"... Children accused of witchcraft are often incarcerated in churches for weeks on end and beaten, starved and tortured in order to extract a confession... About 1,000 people accused of being witches in Gambia were locked in detention centers in March and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion."