The Mind Creative OCTOBER 2014 | Page 58

The Mind Creative What kind of a world do we live in! One such incident anywhere in the world is one too many. The truth is, a veil of secrecy surrounds such incidents and what gets reported is a small fraction of the actual numbers. Witch-hunting and witch-burning are not a separate category from superstition, but rather they flow from it. If praying for one’s well-being is the most elementary and benign expression of superstition, witch-hunting is its most extreme, malignant and dangerous form. 58