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Suspected ‘witch’ held in police custody
By John Leonidou

POLICE have arrested and remanded a Nicosia woman on suspicion of practicing sorcery and cheating another woman out of almost £500.

According to CID Investigator Iraklis Pitsillis, Vera Georgiou, 39, is being investigated for charges relating to fraud, sorcery and intention to conceal a crime after a complaint was filed at Nicosia CID.

Police believe the offences to have been committed sometime between May 2005 and July 2006.
“We have a witness statement from a woman saying that she had visited the suspect’s office early May 2005. Her office would advertise the suspect’s ability to tell fortunes and see into the future”, said Sergeant Pitsillis.

The court yesterday heard how Georgiou took out a deck of tarot cards, revealing pictures of devils and demons, and after turning over five or six cards told the woman “My God, how can you still be alive?”

He continues, “The suspect told her that a foreign woman had put a curse on somebody close to her and that the curse had spread to her and her two children. The suspect then touched the woman’s genital area and told her that she would cancer in that area and then die.”

It was then that the 39-year-old woman allegedly told the woman that she had a remedy for her misfortune and that she would make special wreaths to protect her and her children. She added that she would not charge her for the ritual but only for the products that would need to be imported from abroad.

Georgiou also told her that she should cut herself off from her friends, avoid any physical activity and never to tell anyone of what she has been instructed.

The woman then paid the suspect £23 and left her office.

After their meeting, the suspect had called the woman and told her that she would be performing some spells to rid her of the curse but that she was also going to bring in a sorcerer from abroad to assist her in beating the curse.

“According to the woman,” continued the investigator, “she never met the sorcerer herself”.

It wasn’t long before the suspect began threatening the woman that she and her children would die if she stopped the treatment which consisted of various potions and rituals being made on her behalf.

“In this way, the suspect managed to fraud the woman out of £496 between May 2005 and July 2006. The matter was reported to us on September 22 and the suspect was arrested two days later…The suspect did not answer any of the police’s questions during questioning.”

During the search of Georgiou’s home, investigators found various bank documents, bank account details, small wooden blocks, tarot cards, a mummified bat, a crystal ball and various chemical compounds.

According to Pitsillis, investigators have already taken down three statements from various witnesses and are expecting to take a further 50 statements from people living in the districts of Nicosia, Larnaca and Paphos.

Judge Klitos Hadjipittas agreed with the prosecution’s remand request for a remand of eight days for Georgiou.


Is this for real? Is sorcery a crime in Cyprus?? "witch" is it...

[GorillaGal]

yeah, i am ian inquiring mind on this one too... i can see fraud charges, but sorcery? is this the midevil times again, the burning of the witches? and IF she was committing fraud, she wouldn't be a true witch.

are there any witches (AKA Wiccians or pagans) in Cyprus anyway? what is the feeling about that? After all, you are the birthplace of Aphrodite....
are you not acdcepting of other's religious beliefs?
i remember when i tried to explain to my cypriot boyfriend that i was a witch--he just laughed and asked me if i was kidding.
of course not, it is a very beautiful and peace loving religion.
so tell me--what are the attitudes and laws there regarding witchcraft????

[reportfromcyprus]

I think this is a throwback to the evil eye superstition. It's a big belief here that there are people who can give you the evil eye and that explains anything bad that happens to you. So there are tons of gullible people who'll fork out to be protected against that.

[Strahd]

Actually I believe that Cyprus is a safe haven for all kinds of quackery and false science. I can see everywhere signs for naturpaths, orthomolecular biologists, chiropracts and all the other bullshit that will subscribe you vitamins for whatever you are suffering. This has to be put to an end and under control because a lot of ignorant people are falling victims of those charlatans daily spending immense amount of their hard earned cash and at the end some of them are actually doing more harm than good to themselves.

[Kikapu]

Oh My God, it's the Wicked Witch from the "Wizard of Oz", so it must be AnastasiaC. They will be going after her broom stick next. Repotfromcyprus, I recommend that you hide, or leave the country now.!!

[GorillaGal]

Actually I believe that Cyprus is a safe haven for all kinds of quackery and false science. I can see everywhere signs for naturpaths, orthomolecular biologists, chiropracts and all the other bullshit that will subscribe you vitamins for whatever you are suffering. This has to be put to an end and under control because a lot of ignorant people are falling victims of those charlatans daily spending immense amount of their hard earned cash and at the end some of them are actually doing more harm than good to themselves.

hey strahd,
i guess you never went to a chirapractor before. they are great. i got bit by a baby gorilla once--she dislocated my thumb...i went to the traditional orthopedic doctors, who splinted my finger, but it still hurt, til i saw the chiro. he did a little mumbo-jumbo on it and snapped it right back into place. i should have seen him in the first place....

acupuncturists are great too. saved me from surgery last year.

but if you would ratehr be all cut up and pumped full of drugs, go right ahead. i will stick to my alternative medicines....

[andri_cy]

I think Chiropractors are great. I havent needed to use an accupuncturist as of yet but if I did, I would because I want the least possible amount of chemical crap in my body.

[dinos]

Have to agree with andri_cy & gorillagal about chiropractors. That's a legitemate science.

What's weird to me is all the herbology stuff. Eating clovers and whatnot to relieve this-and-that. Just take Tylenol (Panadol?) so you don't have to eat your front lawn.

-dinos

[GorillaGal]

Have to agree with andri_cy & gorillagal about chiropractors. That's a legitemate science.

What's weird to me is all the herbology stuff. Eating clovers and whatnot to relieve this-and-that. Just take Tylenol (Panadol?) so you don't have to eat your front lawn.

-dinos

most medicines come from nature, and there have been remedies since the beginning of time. 20th century comes along, they find a way to synthasize it and put it in a bottle, and give it some fancy name. i'd ratehr go natural, unless of course they want to give me hormones made from some pregnant horses urine or something equally not too appealing. in that case, i'll take the synthetic stuff. but if i can take a garlic pill and eat oatmeal to lower my cholesteral, i will do that in a flash instead of taking a pill. (btw, i did just that, and my cholestrerol went from 206 to 125.... but i also lost alot of extra weight which helped alot.)

[reportfromcyprus]

Oh My God, it's the Wicked Witch from the "Wizard of Oz", so it must be AnastasiaC. They will be going after her broom stick next. Repotfromcyprus, I recommend that you hide, or leave the country now.!!

Well, ok Kik, you're the producer...I'll go to the Caribbean - all expenses paid?

I think chiropractics - the good ones - do a good service, I have no complaints because I've got back problems and have been helped by that kind of therapy.

Those people who want to manipulate and profit from people's psychological fears are so cunning, because they know how much people want attention and are willing to pay for it.