2015考研英语阅读伦敦巫术_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读伦敦巫术

　　在2002年，他的第一个案例：在泰晤士河中发现的一名为亚当的男孩的残缺躯体。警方认为这是起巫术杀人案，这是一种南非部落习俗，取出人体器官以作药用。霍斯金斯先生辨认出亚当实际上是一个尼日利亚部族的活人祭品。他给出的证据是受害人脖子上精确的切口和鲜血流尽的躯体一种被谴责为juju的神圣礼物，或者可称为西非的巫术。杀死男孩的凶手仍未被定罪，但通过此次调查，警方却发现了一个偷运非洲儿童，卖到英国作为仪式献祭的走私集团。

　　Mr Hoskins and his wife suffered their own tragedy in Congo; one of their twins wasstillborn, the other died before she was two. He admits his work presents emotionalchallenges. But he is not overly sentimental. He writes about criminology, how the policedeal with the media and the perverted beliefs behind the crimes. Much of the book is aboutkindoki. Mr Hoskins understands this as a benign affliction treated with a potion of plantextracts from a nganga, a traditional healer. But there is a growing trend of pastors in newrevivalist Christian churches, both in Africa and Britain, preaching a different, malevolentkind of kindoki. They convince parents that their children are possessed by demons whichmust be exorcised through isolation, fasting and beatings. Gullible and desperate believers,who consider their pastors to be little Gods, will pay good money for them to cure thismalady.