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How Does Mass Hysteria Take Over a School?
Seeing spirits, mass fainting and strange tics: these mysterious incidents are happening in schools across the globe, and nobody quite knows why.
Black Magic and Chicken Blood: Photos of My Week with Sierra Leone's Witch Doctors
A gallery of photographer Olivia Acland's latest work from Sierra Leone where she visited doctors that use a combination of black magic and herbal medicines to cure the sick.
Albino Activism in Tanzania: VICE News Meets Josephat Torner
VICE News traveled to Tanzania to meet with Josephat Torner, an albino activist who has dedicated his life to raising awareness and acceptance towards albinos in his country.
The Fight to Stop Tanzania's Witch Doctors Butchering Albino People
Witchdoctors and their patients believe they have magic powers.
Dr. Kobus Jonker: God’s Detective
In South Africa, they are balls deep in sangomas, or healers. For the most part these sangomas are legit herbalists. There are however a number of bad sangomas, known as baloyi, which are more like dark wizards.