| Black magic in RSA |
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Four teenage girls huddled together, a five-pointed star within a
circle drawn on a grave and droplets of blood - this scene greeted
Greytown police at the local cemetery. The incident has exposed dangerous occult games that some of the children in the town's schools have been playing. Police had received a complaint that Grade 8 school girls were practising Satanism, or occult-related activities, at the cemetery and found four girls practising a ritual at the graveyard on May 16. Three days later, Greytown Primary School pupils and teachers were shocked when four Grade 7 boys were caught playing a question and answer game using the same five-pointed star within a circle and calling on the spirits of dead people. Two of the girls from the cemetery have been exorcised by priests after they displayed behaviour that indicated they were possessed. A local pastor, who did not want to be named, said the two girls were particularly affected and were exorcised after they spoke in a "demonic-sounding voice" and showed "superhuman" strength. He said one of the girls, who is petite, had even assaulted a strapping security guard by grabbing him by his neck and pinning him against the wall. The pastor said that after the prayer the girls appeared to have "normalised". None of the pupils can be named as they are minors, even though their names are known to the Sunday Tribune Herald. SAPS Midlands spokesman Snr Supt Henry Budhram said police had received information about occult-related activity in Greytown and that the girls had initially been at a home in an area called Ghost Town, near the cemetery in the town. He said when police got there they did not find anyone, but then received information that the girls had moved on to the cemetery. "At the graveyard, police found that the girls had cut their hands and were mixing their blood in a tumbler of water, calling on the spirits of two young people who had recently committed suicide by hanging themselves," said Budhram. He said the diagram of a five-pointed star was found at the graveyard. No crime was being investigated, he added, but police were attending to the matter. Budhram confirmed that two of the girls had been exorcised. Terrified Greytown Secondary School pupils who were interviewed this week said the incident had caused mass hysteria, and rumours of other pupils seeing apparitions in a toilet were doing the rounds. Some claim to have heard one of the possessed girls talking to them in a "demonic-sounding voice". "These girls are weird. Out of school, we always see them wearing black, but we didn't think they would be associated with these activities. It's very scary. "There is a dark world out there and I don't know why they want to open the door to it," said one pupil. Greytown Secondary School principal Karan Maharaj said police had informed him about the incident at the graveyard and the matter was receiving attention. At Greytown Primary School, parents, teachers and pupils were mortified after learning that four boys had played what is commonly known as the "yes, no, maybe" game with tissues, matches and the five-pointed star within a circle during school hours. Principal Mark Anthony said he had been informed pupils had performed the ritual in class and had investigated. "I was told they were playing this game with tissues and matchsticks, calling on dead spirits and asking questions such as whether they would pass the exams or become prefects. They would apparently get their answer when the matchstick moved in a certain way. "Before the matter could get out of hand, I called the pupils' parents and teachers and addressed the situation with them," said Anthony. He said when other pupils got to know about it, they had to organise an inter-faith prayer to give them peace of mind, as many were scared. Teachers at the school said that, to prevent such incidents, parents needed to be vigilant about their children's exposure to information. "Supervision is key and parents need to know what their children are exposed to, how they are spending their money and what movies they are watching," said a teacher.
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