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SLEEPY EYE, Minnesota (CNN) -- A 13-year-old Minnesota boy whose family has rejected chemotherapy to treat his cancer is with his mother near Los Angeles, California, and they may be planning to travel to Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.

Doctors say Daniel Hauser's lymphoma responded well to a first round of chemotherapy in February.

Brown County Sheriff Rich Offmann cited "reliable information" in making the announcement to reporters, adding that Colleen Hauser may be seeking treatment for her son's lymphoma just south of San Diego, California, in Mexico.

"I'm confident we will find them," Offmann said. "I'm hoping for Daniel's sake we will find them."

Anthony Hauser, Colleen's husband and the boy's father, has been cooperating with law enforcement, Offmann said.

Earlier Wednesday the boy's father said he believed his son and his wife had already left the country.

"I will say this: I have left a call to where I think they could possibly be," Anthony Hauser said from his home in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, about 85 miles southwest of Minneapolis.

Asked whether he believes that they have gone to Canada, he said, "I'm not saying it's Canada. You know, that isn't where I left my call."

He made his comments a day after a Minnesota judge issued an arrest warrant for Colleen Hauser, who failed to appear with the boy at a court hearing. A judge scheduled the hearing to review an X-ray ordered by the court to assess whether Daniel Hauser's Hodgkin's lymphoma was worsening.

A doctor testified at the hearing that the X-ray showed "significant worsening."

In a news release, the Brown County Sheriff's Office said the father had been "cooperative" in helping them find his son but added, "the investigators cannot speculate on the sincerity of the information that Anthony Hauser has provided."

The sheriff's office has been in touch with the FBI, and the boy has been entered in the Missing and Exploited Children network, it said.

Anthony Hauser testified at the hearing that he last saw his wife at the family's farm on Monday night, when she told him she was going to leave "for a time."

He later said he would like his wife and son to return.

"I'd like to tell them, you know, 'Come back and be safe and be a family again,' " he said. "That's what I'd like to tell them."  Watch father urge the pair to come back Â»

District Judge John R. Rodenberg of Brown County, Minnesota, said the boy's "best interests" require him to receive medical care. His family opposes the proposed course of treatment, which includes chemotherapy.

"It is imperative that Daniel receive the attention of an oncologist as soon as possible," the judge wrote.

During Tuesday's hearing, Dr. James Joyce testified that he had seen the boy and his mother on Monday at his office. He said the boy had "an enlarged lymph node" near his right clavicle and that the X-ray showed "significant worsening" of a mass in his chest.

In addition, the boy complained of "extreme pain" at the site where a port had been inserted to deliver an initial round of chemotherapy. The pain was "most likely caused by the tumor or mass pressing on the port," testified Joyce, who called the X-ray "fairly dramatic" evidence that the cancer was worsening.  Watch CNN's Dr. Gupta discuss Daniel's chances Â»

Rodenberg ordered custody of the boy transferred to Brown County Family Services and issued a contempt order for the mother.

Philip Elbert, Daniel's court-appointed attorney, said he considers his client to have a "diminished capacity" for reasons of his age and the illness and that he thinks Daniel should be treated by a cancer specialist.

Elbert added that he does not think Daniel -- who, according to court papers, cannot read -- has enough information to make an informed decision regarding his treatment.

Daniel's symptoms of persistent cough, fatigue and swollen lymph nodes were diagnosed in January as Hodgkin's lymphoma. In February, the cancer responded well to an initial round of chemotherapy, but the treatment's side effects concerned the boy's parents, who then opted not to pursue further chemo and instead sought out other medical opinions.

Court documents show that doctors estimated the boy's chance of five-year remission with more chemotherapy and possibly radiation at 80 percent to 95 percent.

But the family opted for a holistic medical treatment based upon Native American healing practices called Nemenhah and rejected further treatment.

In a written statement issued last week, an attorney for the parents said they "believe that the injection of chemotherapy into Danny Hauser amounts to an assault upon his body, and torture when it occurs over a long period of time."

Medical ethicists say parents generally have a legal right to make decisions for their children, but there is a limit.

"You have a right, but not an open-ended right," Arthur Caplan, director of the center for bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said last week. "You can't compromise the life of your child."

CNN's Chris Welch contributed to this report.

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question: What medical treatment does the son need?

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question: What does Hauser urge his wife and son to do?

answer: 'Come back and be safe and be a family again,'

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question: Who do police think may be headed toward Mexico?

answer: Colleen Hauser

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question: What does the 13-year-old need?

answer: "It is imperative that Daniel receive the attention of an oncologist as soon as possible,"

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question: who called where he thinks they could be, won't say?

answer: Anthony Hauser

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question: Where do police think mom and son are headed?

answer: Mexico,

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question: What does Anthony Hauser urges his wife and son to do?

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(CNN) -- The label on the package claimed that it contained T-shirts and baby toys.

When customs officials in Sydney scanned the parcel, they found five pythons and two venomous tarantulas.

But when customs officials in Sydney X-ray scanned the parcel, they found instead five pythons and two venomous tarantulas.

On Tuesday, authorities raided the house in Sydney to which the parcel had been addressed. Officials seized evidence but expect to file charges later, the customs agency said.

Importing live animals without a permit is illegal in Australia and can yield a 10-year prison sentence and a fine of 110,000 Australian dollars ($92,000 U.S.).

The parcel was sent from the United States last week, but officials would not say specifically where it had been mailed from.

The snakes were wrapped within white calico bags and the spiders were packed in clear plastic containers, the customs agency said.

The creatures were later killed because they posed a quarantine risk, the agency said in a press release.

It titled the press release: "Spiders and snakes on a plane."

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NEW YORK (CNN)  -- Nearly 27 years ago, amid a crowd of people in Central Park, Ruth Bendik's wallet was stolen. The culprit is still at large, but the wallet has been found -- in the hollow trunk of a cherry tree.

Nearly 27 years ago, amid a crowd of people in Central Park, Ruth Bendik's wallet was stolen.

The wallet was snatched on October 24, 1982, while Bendik, now 69, was in Central Park watching the New York marathon. She went to greet runners at the end of the race and, "when I got out of the crush of people, I realized my purse was much lighter," Bendik told CNN. "I was just so grateful not to have been harmed."

Last week, Josh Galiley, tree-care supervisor for the Central Park Conservancy, was chopping down a hazardous black cherry tree near Rumsey Playfield when he discovered her blue leather wallet in the trunk of the tree, which he estimates is around 65 years old and 50 feet high.

"I started poking in the soft stuff and this wallet turned up. Having been that low in the tree ... the location indicated it had been there for quite some time," Galiley told CNN.

The old wallet was a unique find, he said. "When you're cutting a tree and it's hollow, you expect stuff inside, shreds of material, old marbles, really just knickknacks compared to this," he said, "Nothing with a story. ... We peeked in and there were dates from the early '80s. We figured this was different."

After the wallet was recovered, Galiley said, officials were careful to inform Bendik properly. "We thought she may not want to relive it," he said.

Bendik sang praises for the individuals who returned her wallet, including detective Frank Irizarry, who helped track her down. "The lengths they went to find me, the extent that they went through and the fact that they were concerned about my feelings really impressed me," she said.

The wallet still contained her old driver's license and credit cards, she said, although $20 was missing. "Twenty dollars was a lot of money then," she said.

After two decades, much more has changed. Referring to two of her old bank cards from Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank and Banker's Trust, Bendik said, "I was shocked that both banks had closed."

But some things haven't changed. Bendik continues to have fond memories of Central Park. The Ohio native, who has lived in New York for 40 years, still describes the park as one of her favorite areas in the city. "It's a public place in an impersonal city," she said, "It brings everyone together in a pleasant way of reconnecting with nature and beauty."

Today, Bendik smiles at the idea of her wallet buried in a cherry tree in Central Park for nearly 30 years, and she's happy to have it in her hands again.

"After all these years it's still available as a time capsule of my life."

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text: New

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text: when

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text: realized

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text: purse

text: was

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text: lighter

text: Bendik

text: told

text: CNN

text: I

text: was

text: just

text: so

text: grateful

text: not

text: to

text: have

text: been

text: harmed

text: Last

text: week

text: Josh

text: Galiley

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text: black

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text: Rumsey

text: Playfield

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text: blue

text: leather

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text: of

text: the

text: tree

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text: feet

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text: tree

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text: location

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text: some

text: time

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text: The

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text: wallet

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text: unique

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text: After

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text: Bendik

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text: wallet

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text: York

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text: pleasant

text: way

text: of

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text: wallet

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text: cherry

text: tree

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text: hands

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text: these

text: years

text: it

text: 's

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text: available

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text: time

text: capsule

text: of

text: my

text: life

question: Who found the wallet?

answer: Josh Galiley,

text: Josh Galiley,

question: What did it have in it?

answer: old driver's license and credit cards,

text: old driver's license and credit cards,

question: Where was Ruth Bendik's wallet snatched?

answer: Central Park,

text: Central Park,

question: Where was the wallet found?

answer: in the hollow trunk of a cherry tree.

text: in the hollow trunk of a cherry tree.

question: What was snatched in 1982?

answer: Ruth Bendik's wallet

text: Ruth Bendik's wallet

question: When was his wallet stolen?

answer: Nearly 27 years ago,

text: Nearly 27 years ago,

question: Where was it found?

answer: in the hollow trunk of a cherry tree.

text: in the hollow trunk of a cherry tree.

question: What was missing from the wallet?

answer: $20


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(CNN) -- A Mississippi schoolteacher was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for shooting and stabbing to death her lover's pregnant fiancee in 2006.

Carla Hughes met the victim's fiance at the middle school where she was a teacher.

The same jury that convicted Carla Hughes of two counts of murder Tuesday for the death of Avis Banks spared her life, declining to impose the death penalty.

Mississippi is among the states that consider murdering a pregnant woman to be taking two lives.

Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest asked the panel of nine women and three men to sentence Hughes to death based on the gruesome nature of Banks' murder.

Banks, 27, was found lying in a pool of blood on November 29, 2006, in the garage of the Ridgeland home she shared with Keyon Pittman, the father of her unborn child. She was five months pregnant.

She had been shot four times in the leg, chest and head, and then stabbed multiple times in the face and neck as she lay dying, according to medical testimony.

Prosecutors alleged that Hughes killed Banks so she could have Pittman, a colleague at Chastain Middle School in Jackson, to herself.

"She took Avis Banks' life and the life of her unborn child because she wanted that life," the prosecutor said.

The jury deliberated Wednesday for about an hour to decide on the sentence after hearing emotional testimony from seven defense witnesses, including her parents.

"Carla has been a kind, loving person all her life," said Carl Hughes, who adopted his daughter when she was 6 weeks old.

"I'm not asking you, I'm pleading with you, to spare my daughter's life," said Hughes, who is also a teacher.

He said that the person portrayed by prosecutors as a cold-blooded killer was completely different from the accomplished honors student, equestrian and beauty pageant contestant that he knew and loved.

Hughes' pastor and friends also took the stand to describe her work mentoring youths, volunteering at church and at the school where she met the victim's husband.

Suspicion initially fell on Pittman, who admitted to having an affair with Hughes, a language arts teacher. A key prosecution witness, Pittman told the jury he began seeing Hughes one month after finding out his girlfriend was pregnant. He testified that the two met frequently in Hughes' home and even went out of town together, but he insisted the relationship was based solely on sex.

Throughout the trial, defense lawyers maintained her innocence and attempted to cast blame on Pittman, portraying him as a womanizer seeking to avoid the burden of fatherhood.

Prosecutors alleged the murder weapons connected Hughes to the crime. The defendant's cousin testified that he lent her a knife and a loaded .38 caliber revolver the weekend before Banks' death. Ballistics tests matched the bullets from Banks' body to the gun, which Hughes returned unloaded to her cousin after her first interview with police.

None of Banks' relatives testified at the sentencing. Instead, the jury heard from a forensic pathologist, who described the nature of Banks' injuries.

Madison County Deputy District Attorney John Emfinger urged the jury to look past Hughes' prior achievements and focus on the crime in rendering its sentence.

"In my mind, this overshadows everything else she's done in life. She took the lives of two people in that garage," he said in his closing argument Wednesday.

"When that door opened, (Avis Banks) was not met by a beauty pageant winner, she was not met by a member of the mayor's youth council, she was not met by a peacemaker. ... She was met by a stone-cold killer," he said.

In Session's Jean Casarez contributed to this report.

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question: Avis Banks was how many months pregnant when she was shot and stabbed multiple times?

answer: five

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question: Who said gruesome nature of crime warranted death sentence ?

answer: Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest

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question: Who was five months pregnant?

answer: Banks,

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question: Who convicted Carla Hughes of murder declines to impose death penalty ?

answer: jury

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question: Who was five months pregnant when she was shot, stabbed multiple times ?

answer: Carla Hughes

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question: Who was convicted of murder?

answer: Carla Hughes

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question: The prosecutors said gruesome nature of crime warranted what?

answer: death

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question: Same jury that convicted Carla Hughes of murder declines to impose what?

answer: death penalty.

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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- Some Florida minimum-security inmates want to know: Can you handle the heat?

Inmates work with peppers at the Hillsborough County Jail in Tampa, Florida.

Hot sauce heat, that is -- Jail House Fire Hot Sauce, cooked up by inmates at the Hillsborough County Jail and now offered for sale.

The idea to make Jail House Fire Hot Sauce came from a Cuban former inmate who thought food in the big house was bland.

Allen Boatman, the head of the jail's horticulture program, remembers what his former trusty said: "We're growing these peppers. Why don't we use them?"

Peppers are grown as part of the jail's horticulture program, which is voluntary and offered only to minimum-security trusties. The inmates learn about growing plants, ornamentals, trees, herbs and vegetables -- including more than 1,200 varieties of peppers.

"I thought that was a great idea, so I started doing research on some of the recipes," says Boatman. The research led to a variety of hot sauces that can be bought for $7 a bottle at the jail in Tampa, Florida, or online at www.jailhousefire.org.

There are three different sauces for sale:

Coming soon is a fourth sauce: Misdemeanor.  Watch the inmates at work on hot sauce Â»

Orders for the Jail House Fire sauces have come in from as far away as Germany, England and even Australia.

The inmates make no money from this product. The money goes back into an inmate fund that pays for things like the greenhouse where the peppers are grown.

The horticulture program pays for itself, says Boatman, so no taxpayer money is used.

Several times a year the program hosts a sale of its ornamentals, shrubs and trees, and the locals turn up to support the program. The money raised is used to purchase necessities like fertilizer and soil.

A green thumb is not the only thing that inmate and program member Deline is developing, he says.

"We learn a lot about professionalism, respect, teamwork, ya know -- all that helps," Deline says.

And working in the fields is good for the inmates' self-worth, Boatman says.

"They actually see something growing that they've been involved in. It gives them a lot of sense of pride and accomplishment," says Boatman. "Possibly that'll give them some momentum when they are released to go and get a job and start being a productive member of society."

Boatman doesn't just wish his trusties a good future; he gives them an opportunity. When the inmates are released, they are given a certificate of completion in vocational horticulture. This certificate comes from the school board, with no mention of the program behind bars.

Deline hopes this will work in his favor when he starts looking for a job.

"Florida is full of a lot of landscaping [and] landscaping companies, a lot of nursery companies," Deline says. "Maybe I can use the experience to better myself in the future."

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question: What else does the jail program teach soon-to-be-released inmates?

answer: learn about growing plants, ornamentals, trees, herbs and vegetables

text: learn about growing plants, ornamentals, trees, herbs and vegetables

question: What was used to make hot sauce?

answer: peppers.

text: peppers.

question: what does the program teach

answer: professionalism, respect, teamwork,

text: professionalism, respect, teamwork,

question: Where do proceeds from sale of sauces go?

answer: money goes back into an inmate fund that pays for things like the greenhouse

text: money goes back into an inmate fund that pays for things like the greenhouse

question: What does jail program teach?

answer: The inmates learn about growing plants, ornamentals, trees, herbs and vegetables -- including more than 1,200 varieties of peppers.

text: The inmates learn about growing plants, ornamentals, trees, herbs and vegetables -- including more than 1,200 varieties of peppers.

question: what has happened in the jail

answer: House Fire Hot Sauce, cooked up by inmates at the Hillsborough County

text: House Fire Hot Sauce, cooked up by inmates at the Hillsborough County

question: What does proceeds raised go to?

answer: purchase necessities like fertilizer and soil.

text: purchase necessities like fertilizer and soil.

question: In what jail do inmates raise peppers for making hot sauce?

answer: Hillsborough County

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Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is broadband television network of VICE. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.

Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- For the launch of VICE magazine in Mexico, we decided to make an entire issue about Mexico, written entirely by Mexicans.

At the same time, we came up with the idea of producing a parallel version of that issue in video for VBS.TV and populate our site with documentaries about Mexico, local artists, local musicians and beautiful Mexican girls for the entire month.

Since then, we repeated the same concept when we launched the magazine in Brazil, and we produced an entire month of content about China during the Olympics.

Producer Santiago Stelley and I spent a few weeks in Mexico City producing an hour-long documentary about nighttime crime photographers, interviewing some of the best bands and artists in the city and shooting a project about B movies inspired by the lives of drug traffickers.

A couple of days before Mother's Day, I got to spend a few days at an amazing place called Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers), a retirement home for older prostitutes in Tepito, one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in the city.

I went there with Guillermo Rivero, who wrote the print version of the article, and I produced the documentary version of the same story. The house has a minimum age requirement of 60 and can accommodate up to 45 women. Right now, there are only 23 retired ladies of the night living there. The majority of them continue working, because there are still people who want to pay to have sex with them.

See the rest of House of the Setting Sun at VBS.TV

We had the opportunity to meet some of the women that live there, such as 86-year-old Reyna, who sang for us and told us stories of her youth, and Lourdes, a childless widow in her 60s who is still turning tricks.

We met Canela, a woman in her 80s who was soft spoken and looked incredibly tired. She had stopped working just a few years ago and now sells candies for a living. Finally, we spent some time with Paola, a 61-year-old who is still a sex worker and hopes to continue working for as many years as she can.

We ended up spending Mother's Day with them at what was perhaps the most bittersweet party I've attended.

The women were dancing and eating and drinking punch together, they joked around and seemed to be having a great time. But at some point, Paola started talking to me about her sons, whom she hasn't seen in years and never really visit her. She also talked about the kids of many of the other women in the house -- none of them present at this party -- to celebrate motherhood.

Most of these women actually ended up becoming prostitutes to support their children as their only means of survival.

I think the work that this house and its director Rosalba Rios do -- as weird and unusual as it may seem -- is incredibly valuable. Spending Mother's Day with these brave women forever changed they way l look at prostitution and without a doubt has been one of the most intense parties I've ever attended.

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question: how many women were over 60?

answer: 23

question: how many womens live in the facility

answer: there are only 23 retired ladies

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question: what party did the crew attend?

answer: Mother's Day

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question: how many women were in total?

answer: 23


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LONDON, England (CNN)  -- A wicked opportunity is brewing at Wookey Hole Caves in western England.

Aspiring witches audition for the job Tuesday at Wookey Hole Caves in England.

Applicants are flocking to the town of Wells in Somerset Tuesday in the hopes of being selected as the caves' new resident witch.

With the promise of Â£50,000 ($82,000) per year, and a spacious cave to boot, more than 2,000 candidates are stashing their wart remover and grabbing their broomsticks to persuade a panel of judges to choose them.

The winner will portray the notorious witch that is said to have haunted the caves in the Dark Ages. The witch lived in the cave with goats until an abbot threw holy water on her, turning her to stone, legend says.

Locals say her frozen figure can still be seen in the caves today.

Legend has it that the witch cursed crops, caused disease and soured milk in the area, audition organizers say.

Today, the caves at Wookey Hole are part of a tourist attraction with rides, a circus, theme parks and restaurants. The company that runs it, Wookey Hole Ltd., pays the witch's salary on a year-long contract.

The would-be witches have one minute to perform for the panel Tuesday, employing their best cackle and whatever props they can carry, organizers say.

The position won't necessarily go to a woman; male and transgender witches are also invited to apply. Applicants are told they must, however, be knowledgeable in the history of witchcraft, be willing to travel, sleep overnight in caves, and cannot be allergic to cats.

Organizers say they've had applications from men, women and 230 mothers-in-law.

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answer: Â£50,000 ($82,000) per year,

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answer: witches

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question: To apply for the position, you must be knowledgeable in the history of what?

answer: of witchcraft,

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answer: Â£50,000 ($82,000)

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question: Apart from money, what else is promised

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question: Who is looking to hire a witch?

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