Sexual abuse scandals have turned into a modern witchcraze

THE little girl at the door on Hallowe’en was charmed when I let on to be scared of her witch costume.

Sexual abuse scandals have turned into a modern witchcraze

She even lifted up the mask to show me she wasn't really a witch at all.

She didn't know her costume was a joking reference to an historic holocaust of women. During the European Witchcraze, hundreds of thousands of women were burned at the stake.

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