August 17, 1979: Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Witch?

The New York Post conducted a literal witch hunt directed towards Anita Pallenberg, the wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.

In their report, the Post linked Pallenberg to a witches coven based in South Salem, New York as well as implied that she had taken part in "pot smoking sex orgies" and that small animals had been sacrificed in the area.

Pallenberg, who sang backup on the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," was indeed widely known to be a spiritualist of at least some sort. But it was her more earthly misadventures that were of greater concern. Like that almost-manslaughter charge and the infamous heroin bust.