Voodoo HPs Says Politician Bounced Checks for "Death Ritual"

I hardly even know where to begin with this one, but I'll give it a shot. George Ann Mills, a Voodoo priestess from South Carolina says she was hired by a Georgia county commissioner to work some magic on a political rival -- in fact, Mills says the commissioner, Annette Kesting, asked Mills to perform a death ritual on her opponent. And then, Mills says, Kesting wrote checks that her bank refused to cash due to insufficient funds.

Mills says she "refused to perform the “death ritual” but did perform others intended to help Kesting’s family and financial situation." After checks totalling $3,000 bounced in September, she contacted the police in Cobb County, Georgia, where Kesting is commissioner. The police report says that Mills first had a visit from Kestin in August, and that Kesting wanted her long-time rival Woody Thompson to “catch cancer” or “have a car accident.”

Mills tells reporters that she has asked the gods to help Kesting, and has sacrificed three hens and a rooster as part of cleansing rituals for the Cobb County commissioner. “I am still trying to help her out because I am a priestess,” Mills said.

Kesting's attorney, however, has a slightly different story to tell. He says his client has never even met Mills, let alone paid her any money. In fact, he says she's never had anything to do with any "priestess, witch doctor or palm reader," and that this might be all part of a big conspiracy to defame Kesting, who recently lost to Thompson in the Democratic primary for Cobb County Commission.

Mills has been in prison several times and has been convicted of dozens of counts of writing fraudulent checks, according to law enforcement records.