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Another story off occult-related crime emerges from Zimbabwe:
The 17-year-old Ruwa boy charged with killing his parents in cold blood last year has, in turn, accused his father of using him as a "goblin" to sustain his "mysterious" business empire.
The teenager made the startling claims when his trial opened before High Court judge Justice Tendayi Uchena on Monday. The boy allegedly gunned down his father and mother at their Ruwa home in April last year.
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According to reports, the father had, on the fateful day, woken up the boy at around 3am so that he could study. The teenager pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.
In his defence outline, the boy's lawyer, Advocate Thabani Mpofu, claimed that during the study sessions, which were closed to other family members, his father would burn some roots and unspecified substances. The burning would invariably lead to some "body malaise and dizziness", reads the defence outline.
Adv Mpofu further submitted that over the weekends preceding the fateful day, the boy would spend around 19 hours in an unconscious state that only his father could break.
"Such was the accused's strange routine. The accused is now positively aware that he was being used as a goblin by his father in order to sustain and support his mysterious and vast business interests," Adv Mpofu said.
The boy's father ran a security company, among other businesses. However, the psychiatric report that forms part of the defence established that the boy suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, fits affecting half of the brain.
"His conduct that morning was not voluntary and he committed the acts he is charged with without conscious knowledge. His actions were brought about by either the temporal lobe epilepsy or (the) spiritual world to which he had descended into," Adv Mpofu said.
Of course, this is another sad story, involving tragedy which, in other circumstances, might have been avoidable. However, the reason I posted it is because it is a conjunction of a couple of topics we've touched on before. I've looked at the concern over goblins in southern Africa before (including Zimbabwe), but this is also an example of some of the stranger beliefs connected to the actual (and thriving) voodoo economics: the magical enslavement of people (usually children) in service to some strange, and unspecified, enterprises. This is something we've touched on previously in the shape of ghost slaves and zombie schoolchildren. We also can't overlook the political economic tensions in Zimbabwe, as I mentioned in connection to a witchcraft trial there. The conjunction of all these circumstances has proven fatal, as it has before.
Note also that Ruwa was the location for the Ariel School UFO sighting.
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