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Daily Sun (June 6 2013) - WHEN Reanetse Sebati goes to school today, her mother will be at her side - praying. The 14-year-old schoolgirl has been warned that she will die at noon unless a Satanic rite is performed with a Bible and chicken blood! BUT HER CHRISTIAN MOTHER PAULINE HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE DEVIL: GO TO HELL!

"I worship the Lord. I will never be instructed by Satan," Pauline (49) told Daily Sun. "When Reanetse writes her exam today, I will be praying by her side. No evil will come to us." This latest example of Satan worship happened at Ilinge High School in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, and was allegedly encouraged by the school's governing body! It involved Reanetse, a grade 8 pupil, and a boy at the school.

The boy had helped the girl's friend repair a cellphone and demanded that Reanetse cut herself and put her blood on a piece of paper. When she refused, the boy warned her she would be thrown out of the school bus. According to Reanetse, she fell out of the bus a week later. "I don't know what happened," the young girl told Daily Sun. "It was as if I was flying."

Then this week, Pauline Sebati was called to the school by the governing body. "The SGB members told me that I should perform a Satanic ritual by noon on Thursday or my daughter would die," she said. "They said the boy pupil, a Satan worshipper, had told them I had to bring an old Bible and slaughter a chicken on top of it on the school premises.

"They also told me that the boy said he had instructions from Queen Satan: I should bring three pens, a white, a red and a black. And R45 with my daughter's fingerprints." The demand shocked and angered the single, unemployed mother. "I am a churchgoer and I worship the Lord. I will not be instructed by Satan. "Satan can go to hell!"

Reanatse told Daily Sun: "I refused to give this boy my soul and blood as a payment for repairing my friend's phone, which I accidentally damaged. "My mother raised me in the word of the Lord and I will never practise Satanism," she said. "I am scared because I don't want to die but I will pray today too. Only God knows when I will die," she said sadly.

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