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brianellwood MAD HATTER
Mad Hatter Joined: 10 Nov 2001 Total posts: 823 Location: kernow,u.k. Gender: Male |
 Posted: 14-07-2004 16:17 Post subject: |
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This one is weird, he seems to have fallen out with the local pagan community.
ps. I'm over your way at the Pandora Saturday afternoon. Mylor! |
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| Posted: 14-07-2004 16:20 Post subject: |
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| brian ellwood wrote: |
This one is weird, he seems to have fallen out with the local pagan community.
ps. I'm over your way at the Pandora Saturday afternoon. Mylor! |
well...i saw severil papers phoned up Edd Pynn!... not an exceedingly reliable source!.. Pandora is pirti interesting historicaly... conected to the Pandora that was sent to aprehend the Mutineers from the Bounty. |
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| Posted: 14-07-2004 16:27 Post subject: |
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| My parents live 4 miles from Wadebridge and have used that garage for more than twenty years. |
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| Posted: 14-07-2004 19:29 Post subject: |
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| Physick wrote: |
My parents live 4 miles from Wadebridge and have used that garage for more than twenty years. |
to me it always looked sort of delapidated and uncared for...sinester even. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-08-2004 22:46 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Tanzanian 'witch killers' charged
By Vicky Ntetema
BBC correspondent in Dar es Salaam
Some 20 people in Tanzania have been charged with murdering seven men they suspected of practising witchcraft.
Among the accused are village leaders and other local officials, who ordered the killings, according to the police.
They had organised a secret ballot where residents named the alleged witches and wizards, who were then attacked with machetes and spears.
Seven others were injured in the attacks police describe as the most atrocious ever seen in the area.
Killing squad
Those on the hit list, drafted by village leaders near Makete in Iringa region, were advised to leave their homes immediately or face the consequences.
Regional Police Commander Omar Mganga told the BBC that those who defied the local authorities' orders were then attacked by a killing squad of young men using clubs, machetes and spears.
"Our investigations showed that the victims were under the suspicion of fellow villagers' murders, after relatives noticed that certain organs were removed from the bodies of their loved ones," Police Commander Omar Mganga said.
During several raids, the police found the names of the murdered and injured victims in the minutes of one of the village meetings.
Some of the suspects, who appeared in Njombe magistrates court on Wednesday, include a councillor, a village chairperson and executive officers, a businessmen and farmers.
Their alleged involvement has shocked residents and police in the district.
'Police, judge, jury and executioner'
What is more worrying to many is the method of nominating people who are suspected of being involved in witchcraft.
Two months ago, villagers in a neighbouring district used a secret ballot to make a list of people who they claimed were responsible for killing old women and removing their internal organs for witchcraft purposes.
But they passed their list of suspects to the police, unfortunately, Police Commander Omar Mganga said, leaders of the three villages near Makete decided to be the police, judge, jury and executioner in these chilling and cruel murders.
Witchcraft-related murders seem to occur in this region during the harvest season, when some people believe that if fresh human blood or dried and powdered internal human organs are sprinkled over land and buildings then business will be successful.
In recent years, the trade in human organs has been on the increase in this southern part of Tanzania.
Human skinning, which hit the headlines two years ago, still haunts neighbouring Mbeya region where six young people were thought to have been killed and skinned.
The case will continue in two weeks.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/3535218.stm
Published: 2004/08/04 14:27:17 GMT
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See the muti murders thread for further information on the kind of things that have sparked this kind of killing:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2064 |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-08-2004 03:03 Post subject: |
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Another report on that:
| Quote: | Mob Accused of Killing Tanzania Witches
By Associated Press
August 5, 2004, 11:19 AM EDT
IRINGA, Tanzania -- A mob armed with machetes, stones and knives killed seven people accused of practicing witchcraft in southern Tanzania, a regional police chief said Thursday.
Villagers said the alleged witches cut off the sexual organs of dead villagers and used them to concoct charms intended to bring good harvests and fortune.
About 22 villagers and local leaders appeared in a magistrate court Wednesday on charges of killing the seven -- five men and two women from three villages, said Omari Maganga, police chief for the southern Iringa region.
Police investigations indicated village leaders and other local officials ordered the killings after villagers informed on the victims, Maganga said.
Belief in witchcraft is common throughout rural Tanzania.
A 2002 report by the U.N.'s World Health Organization said an estimated 500 elderly women accused of witchcraft -- often connected with an event like crop failure -- are murdered every year in Tanzania.
Others have killed relatively wealthy villagers they accused of being witches and then claimed their property.
The killings have also been linked to a cross border trade in human skins that are used in witchcraft. Some people believe human skin protects a home from demons and spirits and when used in special rituals can increase harvests and lure clients to shops and other businesses. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-09-2004 15:31 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 41 'witches' murdered in 4 years in Orissa village
By Bibhuti Mishra in Bhubaneswar
Monday, 27 September , 2004, 09:36
The tribal-dominated Sundargarh district of Orissa has been consistently reporting murder of persons suspected to be 'witches'.
And the toll in the last four years has come up to 41 since three women in the age group 51 to 81 in Hatibari were murdered, as they were suspected to be practising witchcraft.
That was in September 2001. Five people were arrested.The same year another five women and a old man were murdered in different villages as they were suspected to be witches. 2002 recorded murder of 14 including 7 women.
Those murdered included a 80- year-old man and an 18- year- old girl. 23 people were arrested in connection with these murders. Another 18 have been victims of the superstition so far.
Although the police have arrested the suspects and accused there has been no let up in old men and women becoming targets of people who suspect them of practising witchcraft and causing harm to people.The police sources affirm that it is more a social problem with wide apread superstition in the tribal area.This has to be tackled through awareness campaigns. |
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13575783 |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-11-2004 15:46 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Thursday, November 4, 2004
Woman killed on suspicion of being witch
Asian News International
Siliguri, November 4
A 70-year-old woman Nagasia was killed in Siliguri on Tuesday by two youths of her village on the suspicion of being a witch.
Bihani was beaten to death by two youths Sibon and Dhutu of her village. Both the accused charged the woman of allegedly practising witch craft. After being beaten mercilessly, she was taken to the hospital. She sustained major injuries, and died a day after being admitted in the hospital.
Whenever an outbreak of some disease occurs or more than one person dies, aged women are held responsible for practicing witch craft.
"They thought that she was a witch and killed her. Both the killers live here only. I don't know who is a witch, you should ask them who killed Bihani", said Maghnath Nagasia, son of the deceased.
Fate of the women, who is being accused of wicked practices is decided by the chief of the village. The administration claims that these types of incidents occur because of lack of proper education.
"Police on reaching the spot found that two guys were assaulting a 70 year old woman. We caught hold of the two accused and started a case against them. The lady was then taken to the hospital and a day after she died. We have started a case," Siliguri DSP Joy Biswas said.
In order to create awareness among the villagers about these kinds of practices, the administration has organised many street plays but the result is not upto the mark. In the last five years, 93 people have been killed, accused of practicing witchcraft in Jalpaiguri district alone. |
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7242_1089662,00180008.htm |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 22-11-2004 15:44 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Witchcraft Suspect Lynched, 2 Others Wounded
The Post (Buea)
November 16, 2004
Posted to the web November 19, 2004
Olive Ejang Tebug
Konye
Youths in Kokaka Village, Konye Sub-division, recently murdered one person and inflicted serious wounds on two others, following the death of one Solomon Nasako suspected to have been killed by three elders through witchcraft.
One of the victims, John Etuke, died in the course of the battle, while Paul Musima and Boniface Bamai, who were seriously wounded, are lying at the Presbyterian Hospital Manyemen.
The Genesis
Recounting the story to The Post at Kokaka, one of the villagers, Jonas Ekoe, said, Kokaka has been notorious for practising witchcraft for several years. He recalled that five years ago, about 30 children between the ages of six months to two years were killed in a space of one week in the village.
Ekoe said the families of the children found out from a herbalist, that Boniface Bamai was the brain behind the killings.
In last June, Ekoe continued, four pupils from the Kokaka Community Primary School were noted for performing mystical acts in the school. He said the children were brought to the village square, to explain their strange behaviour.
The children reportedly explained that Bamai initiated them into witchcraft through food he offered them.
Ekoe said the children revealed that since then, they have been holding spiritual meetings at midnight with Bamai and other elderly people in the village.
The children told the villagers that they have initiated many other children into their society.
This incident, Ekoe stated, led to the closure of the school. The children were all taken to a native doctor for treatment. He also said when the villagers questioned Bamai, he confessed having initiated the children.
Another villager, Cosmas Ebune, explained that about 20 youths, who called themselves "ECOMOG Boys", decided to burn Bamai to death in order to eliminate witchcraft from the village.
Ebune said Bamai was brought to the village square and tyres put round his body, but the Divisional Officer for Konye Sub-division, Michael Bongwa Makebeh, immediately intervened and rescued Bamai.
Ebune said the DO promised to charge Bamai to court, since he had evidence from the children's testimony.
"But, to our greatest dismay," Ebune said, "Bamai was released some months later and he returned to the village."
When Bamai returned to Kokaka, Ebune said, he formed a group of wizards, and they decided to kill all the ECOMOG Boys, who wanted him dead.
Bamai's first victim, Ebune revealed, was Solomon Nasako, one of the ECOMOG Boys who died on October 22.
He said Nasako was coming from the farm that day when he met a friend transporting cocoa from his oven to a vehicle waiting nearby. After helping the friend with two bags of cocoa, Nasako fell on the third bag, which was rather small.
Nasako was rushed to the Kumba District Hospital, where he died the following day.
When the villagers realised that Nasako's death was unnatural, they went to native doctor in Barombi Kotto Village, who reportedly revealed that Nasako's spirit told him he had been killed by Bamai, Etuke and Musima; and that 15 others were on a list to be killed by these men within two weeks.
The Fight
When Nasako's corpse was removed from the mortuary on October 29, the ECOMOG Boys came out with broken bottles, machetes and spears, ready to kill the three men, who allegedly murdered him.
Ebune recounted that the first person the boys met was John Etuke. He said they wounded Etuke around his neck and head and cut off one of his ears.
Ebune said the ECOMOG Boys caught Bamai in a beer parlour, pierced his eyes, and cut him to the point of death.
Meanwhile, Ebune said Musima was hit with a pestle and pierced with a spear, while those with machetes inflicted cuts on his body.
Amongst the three, Ebune said, only Etuke died some hours later, meanwhile Musima and Bamai were taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, Manyemen, all in a coma.
When The Post visited the victims at the hospital, none of them could speak. Moses Elondo, son of Paul Musima, said his father's head and brain had been damaged. He said he was quite sure his father would not survive.
Elondo said that from childhood, he has never known his father to be a wizard, nor has he discovered strange behaviours in him.
Arrival Of Gendarmes
Collins Itoe, another villager, told The Post that when the ECOMOG Boys were beating the suspects, mourners who had come from near and far to condole with Nasako's family fled.
Itoe said the mourners packed bunches of plantains, bags of water fufu, pots of half boiled rice, pigs and jugs of palm wine inside a vehicle and disappeared as a unit of gendarmes entered the village.
As the gendarmes entered the village, the villagers ran into the farms for safety. Some of them took cover in cocoa ovens and farmhouses.
The Post gathered that the gendarmes chased the villagers right into the forest and arrested many of them.
Itoe said some of them succeeded in bailing themselves with FCFA 50,000; meanwhile others have been taken to the Gendarmerie office in Kumba.
Chieftaincy Dispute
Most villagers who spoke to The Post said Kokaka has been divided into two camps for two years, since the death of their Chief, Michael Ekuke.
They said Ekuke's successor, John Adama, was also killed.
They said Aduma, the person who was to succeed Adama had been rejected by some villagers on the claim that he cannot bring development to Kokaka.
This situation, they said, has split the village into camps that kill each other. They said this state of affairs have thrown Kokaka into witchcraft compounded by illiteracy, theft and insubordination to administration.
DO Speaks
Bongwa Makebeh, the DO for Konye Sub-Division, told The Post that he has arrested many youths like Samuel Soaka, David Obase, Joseph Mokaba Itoe and Augustine Ngoe.
Bongwa explained that the "principal suspects," Chrisantus Mebuka and Sakwe Bolo are still on the run. He said the security forces are working hard to trace and arrest them.
Bongwa also told The Post that when Bamai was almost burnt in June, he had warned and cautioned the inhabitants of Kokaka not to mete out jungle justice on suspects. He said he told them to allow the administration to handle the matter.
Bongwa also said that he had intended to bring Bamai to justice, by charging him to court.
He, however, regretted that some politicians intervened while Bamai was at the Judicial Police awaiting trial and got him released.
The DO also regretted that the Kokaka population overreacted by killing a man and leaving two others in coma.
He said he is trying to restore calm in the village by getting all the suspects arrested. He said he is already arranging for consultative meetings with all the chiefs in Konye Sub-division and Kokaka inhabitants so that the chieftaincy dispute can be resolved and a new chief designated.
"I think with a leader, the villagers can be controlled, since the DO cannot rule the village from the Sub-divisional headquarters," Bongwa said. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 16-12-2004 01:50 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 5/12/2004
Delusions of murder accused
Jury: will decide if ill man started fire
A MENTALLY ill man torched tragic nurse Angela Stanyer’s home because he believed she was a witch tormenting him, a jury heard yesterday.
Angel Sanjurjo, who suffers from paranoid delusions, is accused of starting the fire that claimed the life of Mrs Stanyer in Tilehurst nine months ago.
Mrs Stanyer, a nurse who had twice beaten cancer, helped her teenage daughter escape the inferno but was trapped herself.
Sanjurjo – who once worked with Mrs Stanyer and her husband Trevor at Mars in Slough – is too ill to stand trial.
However the jury at Reading Crown Court will have to decide if he was the arsonist.
He suffered burns on the same day of the fire in Ogmore Close and yesterday prosecutor John Price said he made “very strange and disturbing remarks” while he was being treated.
Detectives could find no rational grievance or motive but Mr Price said: “There is however a reason he should have wanted to do it, so submit the prosecution, albeit in his case an entirely irrational one.
“He spoke to [medical] staff of being hounded by a witch.
“He told them her name was Angie, he said he used to work with this witch, and of course they shared an employer for 10 years, and she had suffered from cancer.
“He said he was frightened of this lady and this witch and he strongly disliked her.
“At one stage he told staff, and I quote, she had tormented him for years ‘everywhere I go and she calls me a coward’.”
Mr Price added: “It should be emphasised that all the things he has said about her, all of them, it is quite clear from the evidence, are completely false and without foundation. But to him they were utterly true and real.”
Mrs Stanyer, 52, worked at Mars between 1978 and 1988 while Sanjurjo, 62, worked there between 1974 and 2002.
Her husband Trevor also worked there from 1979 until earlier this year.
The jury was told that while Mr Stanyer knew Sanjurjo was a colleague, he did not know him personally. Records at the confectionery company showed there were no disputes involving the three.
Sanjurjo, of Dee Road, was charged with murder and arson with intent to endanger life.
On Monday a jury decided he was too ill to stand trial. The second jury will not be deciding whether he is guilty or innocent of the criminal charges but whether he started the fire and if it claimed Mrs Stanyer’s life.
The trial continues. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 25-02-2005 21:35 Post subject: Cornwall "satanic murder" arest made...dont seem t |
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"A woman has appeared before magistrates in Truro charged with the murder of parish councillor Peter Solheim.
Margaret James from Porthoustock near St Keverne, is charged with murdering Mr Solheim with a person or persons unknown, and conspiracy to murder.
The 56 year old, who was Mr Solheim's long term partner, spoke only to confirm her name, age and address and was remanded in custody until 4 March"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4297007.stm
sme more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3559278.stm
and "02 July 2004
The talk in the bars and restaurants of Mylor harbour in Cornwall normally revolves around nothing more sinister than fishing, weather and the state of the tides. Yesterday it was of black magic and murder."
http://pages.globetrotter.net/mleblank/msd/nv-stn-02-07-2004-1.html
soem might like to know progress onthis case... but i cant seem to find anythign useign serch optin, freeking thing just returns hundreds of "true crime" hits...the serch bit of the board is pants!..mods feel free to move it about. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-04-2005 01:18 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Nine held in lynching case
BHUVANESHWAR PRASAD
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2005 02:18:11 AM ]
PURNIA: Superstition has taken its toll. But, whether it was a grisly witch-hunt or the tribal "mad woman" fell prey to remorseless mob fury remains somewhat clouded in mystery.
Purnia police have arrested nine persons on the charge of lynching a tribal woman, Sumitra Devi, in a dense Adivasi mohalla near Captain Bridge right in the midst of Purnia town on Monday, Purnia SP Sudhanshu Kumar said.
The SP believes that the tribal woman was real mad and fell a victim to mob fury.
Sadar police station officer-in-charge (OC) told TOI that all the nine persons have been rounded up on the charges of murder under Section 302 of the IPC.
The public perception is, however, entirely different. According to some inhabitants, Sumitra Devi was a real witch. She had allegedly exhumed the body of a minor girl exactly 12 days after she had been buried in the vicinity.
She was caught red-handed doing a macabre dance with the girl's decomposed corpse, who, she claimed, could be resuscitated to life. In point of fact, the superstitiously-blinded people insisted upon the "witch" to bring the dead girl to life through her supernatural prowess. And, when she failed to perform the most unnatural, the irate mob beat her mercilessly. She succumbed to merciless beating by the time she was taken to the sadar hospital.
It is stated that the grandpa of the deceased minor girl, who is the daughter of Hira Uraon, had died a month back.
At the time of "shradh" ceremony, the said tribal woman Sumitra Devi had taken the minor on her lap, hugged and kissed her repeatedly. The girl took ill soon after and died within 24 hours. The minor was buried nearby.
Everyone thought it was "kiss of death" by the weird woman.
On Monday, the "witch" exhumed her body and began to dance. A small crowd collected soon as the news spread like wild fire. She had again taken her on her lap. The tribals, still rocked in superstition, insisted upon her to bring the child back to life.
And, when the miracle did not take place, the woman had to suffer the comeuppance. She was dragged and beaten to death, it is learnt.
However, the tribals are unfazed and remorseless, say the neighbours. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 29-04-2005 04:46 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 'Witches' lynched by angry mob
27apr05
A Tribal mob in northeastern India lynched and decapitated two women accused of practising witchcraft, threw their bodies into a river and paraded their heads as trophies, police said.
The mob dragged the 60-year-old Bodo tribal woman and her 30-year-old daughter from their village in Jarbari, 280 km west of Assam state's main city of Guwahati, and killed them.
"The attack was gruesome with the mob killing them and chopping off their heads and throwing the decapitated bodies in the river," a police official said.
Villagers believed the women "had cast evil spells," the police official said, and afterwards paraded the heads "as trophies."
Eight people have been arrested over the attack. Witchcraft is practised in various areas in India but is particularly popular in some parts of the remote northeast where it is used to treat ailments or cast spells on enemies. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Quote: | Man held after grandmother is hacked to death
April 29 2005 at 08:08PM
Limpopo police have arrested a 31-year-old man of Dan Village in Ritavi for allegedly hacking his grandmother to death with an axe.
"The man allegedly broke into the 71-year-old grandmother's house at about 6pm on Thursday and found her eating her soft porridge. He accused the woman of witchcraft, saying she had bewitched him," Captain Maano Sadiki said on Friday.
"He used the axe he was carrying and started chopping her into pieces. She died at the scene."
The man was arrested on Thursday, a few hours after the incident, and will appear in the Ritavi magistrate's court on a charge of murder. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 04-06-2005 15:40 Post subject: |
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I stumbled across this looking for something else:
| Quote: | 'Witches' killed in Bengal village
30 March, 2005 by mandeep
Superstitious villagers in a remote tea-growing region in West Bengal killed two elderly widows ....
Superstitious villagers in a remote tea-growing region in West Bengal killed two elderly widows after branding them witches.
The victims were targeted because they had completely white hair that the superstitious villagers took to be an ominous sign.
The women, both aged above 60, were hacked with sharp weapons by a group of men. The victims, whose bodies were recovered Monday, were held responsible for disease and death in Rangamati Tea Estate in the Dooars area of northern West Bengal.
Many tea gardens of the region have huge operating losses and workers go without pay for months. Many tea gardens have shut down in the past few years.
Disease and death are common among tea garden workers, most of whom are illiterate tribals that practise witch hunting, sorcery, necromancy and even human sacrifice. |
www.expressnewsline.com/phpnews1/news.php?action=fullnews&id=2849 |
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