Thanks to the influence of Victorian and Edwardian era writers of spooky tales like M.R. James and Charles Dickens, Christmas in the British Isles has long been considered an apt time for the telling of ghost stories. In Dickens's own best effort, A Christmas Carol, he has his Ghost of Christmas Future appear to Scrooge dressed eerily like so:
It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible, save one outstretched hand. But for this, it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.
Dickens's festive fable was written way back in 1843. Were he describing the Ghost of Christmas Future’s likely attire today in 2024, he may well have preferred to see him clad in djellaba, keffiyeh, taqiya or turban. Come to think of it, a faceless entity dressed all in black from head-to-toe does sound rather like someone wearing a burka.
Urfan Legends
During the pre-Christmas trial of Urfan Sharif, the Pakistan-born Muslim found guilty of abusing his 10-year-old daughter Sara Sharif to death at his home in Surrey, Urfan briefly attempted to blame his wife Beinash Batool for the child’s fate, accusing the wicked stepmother of suffering from demonic possession caused by maleficent effects of witchcraft.
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What an absolutely brilliant article by Steven Tucker! It also brings to mind the Voodoo Black Magic rituals imported to the UK by Ethnic Africans, and the ritual sacrifices of children to various Hindu deities, chiefly Kali-Allah the Moon Spider Goddess of Death and her Toyboy Shiva/Satan, which are still “a problem” for authorities in India.
Satanic depravity manifesting in the physical earthly realm.
I’d just like to take this opportunity to say how wonderful all aspects of multiculturalism are. And I thank the wonderful, death-wish possessed British Establishment for their brilliance in bringing all the wonderful cultural enrichers to my country.
It’s all part of the New Dark Age we’ve entered.
There are those who call for homeopathy to be available on the NHS with much the same justification, i.e. it ‘works’ (for some people).
Of course, the NHS already sets quite a lot of store by the spirits residing within us all, which they call ‘gender’. The dgender djinn are not themselves malign, though, only our response to them.
Top marks to the author for uncovering Dr Andrea Kitta, she is hilarious!
So … when the Treacherous British Establishment tells us, after every Islamic atrocity, that the perpetrator was suffering from mental illness, they’re basically just reciting Muslim/ Pakistani dogma.
I’m so glad we’ve been “enriched” by these people. I guess importing African believers in Witchcraft, who can identify and go on to kill witch-children, wasn’t sufficient “enrichment” for the native Brits.
I went to look on the interwebs for Mr Tucker’s book, and I see he also wrote the Billy goats gruff and three little pigs.
A much less depressing read.:-)