It’s easy to think about the Bible as some ancient book—especially when it talks about things like sacrifices and idols. We think, “thank goodness non of that happens.” But last Thursday a man was arrested while traveling when six roasted human fetuses packed in his luggage. You really did read that right.

If you can stomach it, it might drive your intercession to click on this picture, but I warn you, when I saw it, I yelled out as if I were in pain—because I was. It’s horrific.

But it’s not unusual. Fetuses found wrapped in gold leaf are used as “good luck” charms, which may be one of the ultimate in witchcraft. It makes Psalm 106 come alive in a terrible way:

They served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹ Thus they were defiled by their own works,
And played the harlot by their own deeds.

The Taipei Times reports  that that the use of dead babies in black magic rituals is rather common, adding tat most are stillborn babies from abortions.

“In Thai black-magic rituals, also observed in some Chinese communities, preserved fetuses are believed to bring good fortune to the owner and are often kept in shrines inside homes or businesses.

“According to an undertaker in Taipei surnamed Peng (彭), smugglers of dead infant bodies into Taiwan typically made profits in two ways: One way is by melting gold and infusing it into the bodies and then taking the gold out after the bodies are in Taiwan. In other words, they are smuggling gold.

“Another way is that they suture the body and preserve it from decomposing by dousing it with special medical liquid and infusing wax into them. The corpses can then be sold at a very high price to people who believe that possessing them will bring them good fortune.”

If you recall, it was only a couple weeks ago the story broke that ground up fetal remains were being used as a cure-all stamina builder capsule.

It’s pretty easy to dismiss this stuff as something that happens in a far away place, except that here in our own nation women slap Neocutis wrinkle cream on their faces, despite the fact a baby died for that beauty. As Children of God for Life reported:

“Neocutis’ key ingredient known as “Processed Skin Proteins” was developed at the University of Luasanne from the skin tissue of a 14-week gestation electively-aborted male baby donated by the University Hospital in  Switzerland.  Subsequently, a working cell bank was established, containing several billion cultured skin cells to produce the human growth factor needed to restore aging skin.”

We think all the witchcraft and black magic is happening in Korean energy capsules or creepy  fetal good luck charms but it’s really far away and “we” don’t do that. Really, we use an aborted baby in a lab to create taste receptors; we slap the processed ingredient son our faces to preserve our beauty and look younger.

Or as the Psalmist says,

And the land was polluted with blood.
Thus they were defiled by their own works,
And played the harlot by their own deeds.

In our nation, we think luck is defined by our good looks or entrainment value. In Taipei, perhaps they think it’s a good luck charm, but in actuality there is not much difference. We kill our babies to profit our personal gain, becoming harlots that betray our Bridegroom.

Until we become a voice in this wilderness of darkness and cry out for the land and become diligent, this will only expand. Next up it will be pills here, good luck charms, black magic. None of that is unique to another region.

Back in the days of snail mail, there was a saying in Hollywood that went something like this: For every letter a TV network got complaining, they would assume 100 didn’t write letters. That principle could be applied here. For every story we do hear about, how many do we not? Witchcraft and black magic occur within our own borders. We are naïve if we think we are exempt. But if we rise up and cry out, if we commit to prayer and diligent guard our lives from this invasion of the profit off the shedding of innocent blood, we can be part of the change.