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PostPosted: 20-05-2004 20:46    Post subject: Witches Reply with quote

[edit: A general witch thread - I'll keep an eye on things and see if any patterns emerge and it needs plitting but it'll do for now.]

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Fifty nine killed by witches new book reveals

A new book has arrived as if by magic which recounts sorcery and the occult of witches in Hertfordshire.

The Witches of Hertfordshire, by Simon Walker, details the cases of witchcraft which have been recorded in the county over the centuries.

It investigates the myths and legends of the phenomena, drawing upon a large number of sources from all around the county, including court records, contemporary accounts and archaeology.

The book is a fascinating insight into the history of dark doings in Hertfordshire, and would certainly make you think twice the next time a strange looking woman with a black cat crossed your path.

The Witches of Hertfordshire is published by Tempus Publishing and is priced at £14.99. www.tempus-publishing.com. The Borehamwood and Elstree Times has five copies of the book to give away.

To win one answer the following question.

According to popular belief, what colour is a witches' cat?

a) Black
b) Grey
c) Ginger

All entries should be sent to The Borehamwood and Elstree Times, 1 Drayton Road, Borehamwood WD6 2DA by June 4.


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PostPosted: 07-06-2004 16:06    Post subject: The wailing witches of Baba Vakhtor Reply with quote

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The wailing witches of Baba Vakhtor

PAUL JOHN

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, JUNE 07, 2004 01:05:04 AM ]


GABADIA(Vadodara dist): Many a hill in Chhota Udepur serve as sacrificial altars for the one million tribals who inhabit this belt. But Baba Vakhtor hill represents more than just a pinnacle of superstition — it represents the misery of women ostracised as witches.

Thrown out of their villages, these so-called witches take shelter on this craggy hill. Set on the banks of the Orsang river, this hill is dedicated to Baba Vakhtor — their protector.

On a full moon Thursday, like the one that just passed, Baba Vakhtor is supposed to visit this hill. But there are few who dare to tread the three km-long distance between Gabadia village and the hill. For the villagers believe it is haunted by witches.

As one climbs the hill, representing the acme of exploitative condition of marginalised women, piles of boulders resound with wails and hisses. The wails get shriller as behind each big boulder are women — all in a trance, wailing, hissing, trembling, shaking their heads in a frenzy.

"Don’t stand next to her, don't stare at her this way. She is not possessed. She is mentally ill," says 26-year-old Bhimsinh Rathwa from Dehri village,who had accompanied his sister Sundari to the hill. This after she was branded a witch by the village witch-doctor or 'bhuva'. "She wanted to visit other Gods but the villagers would not allow her to enter their village. This is the only place she can visit," says Rathwa.

The village bhuva said it was Sundari who was responsible for the deaths of her four-month-old son, her brother-in-law and two buffaloes.

"She lost control after she lost her baby. She did not know what to do with her sick child while her husband was away in Kutch," says Rathwa.

Like Sundari, there are at least 15 other ostracised women, on the hill, all assembled to take Baba Vakhtor's blessings.

Ghemchand Baba, a witch doctor and the priest of the Vakhtor Dev temple, believes that the hill is the only place where those branded as witches can gain some more knowledge of 'witchcraft'.

"There are three important locations on this hill for these women — the Pir Baba dargah at the bottom, Baba Vakhtor and Kothar Mata. This is the usual routine for these women on every full moon that coincides with a Thursday," he says.

When asked how does one identify a witch, witch-doctor Kocchar Baba explained that one has to take a leaf called the 'khakhar paido', pack it with a pinch of lentil or pulses and take it to the suspected woman while she is asleep.

The pack is then taken to the bhuva who, through some rituals, identifies the witch.

But a senior professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Ajay Dandekar says the phenomenon of witch-hunting is more economic than social.

"Tribal society being more egalitarian in nature considers women equal to men when it comes to owning property. By branding some woman as a witch, she can easily be refused this privilege," says Dandekar.


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Accused of witchcraft, women banished far from home

Blamed for fever, drought, accidents
In Ghana, 1,000 live in colonies

Gambaga, GHANA—In the uppermost reaches of Ghana, where the dry savannah bleeds into the sandy Sahel, the appearance of witches isn't confined to one dark, fall night filled with tricks and treats.

It may be Halloween in Canada, but in a cluster of round, medieval-looking mud huts in Gambaga, some overgrown with pumpkin vines, hundreds of women accused of witchcraft do penance for their past.

Some freely admit they used the dark arts to settle old scores, rendering wandering husbands impotent or eviscerating the crops of enemies. But most say they were blamed for suspicious boils and bites, deadly car accidents, devastating droughts, feverish malaria-fuelled dreams, and epidemics and outbreaks beyond their control.

Twelve years ago, Hawa Mahama's nephew woke one morning convinced his aunt had tried to kill him in his dream.

The boy's father, Mahama's eldest brother, swiftly accused her of witchcraft. Although she vehemently denied the charge, the family sent her from their home in Kparigu to Gambaga, a dusty village near the Burkina Faso border, where the chief agreed to settle the dispute using a traditional shrine ceremony.

To determine whether Mahama was a witch, the enigmatic Gambarana, or chief, slaughtered a charmed fowl. If it died with its beak in the air, Mahama was telling the truth and was not practising witchcraft.

But the fowl flopped forward as it died, landing on its breast and convicting Mahama of being a witch. It was a verdict she says she was forced to accept.

The 80-year-old woman was banished from her home and has been living at the witch camp in Gambaga ever since.

The camp has no cauldrons, no potion books, no cackling old covens. Instead, it's like a perverse retirement community, where emaciated old women rely on their neighbours for food, clothing and shelter.

Nkugosiba Gazari has lived at the Gambaga camp for 35 years, arriving from a tiny northern village. "At first it was not happy for her, but as time went on she got used to it," interpreter Alhassan Mohammed said, translating Gazari's words from her native Mamprusi dialect.

Now in her 80s, Gazari's days are spent shelling groundnuts, drying beans and working in farmers' fields in exchange for a meagre portion of the harvest. Every day she carries her own water from a nearby pump, on a foot that was partially amputated after suffering an infection.

Although witchcraft is a centuries-old concept, born of a widespread belief in animalistic rituals and totems, and sometimes belittled by a population that increasingly sees itself as Christian or Muslim, the number of women accused of engaging in sorcery is actually on the rise.

In 1997, Ghana's Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice estimated that more than 700 women were living at the country's four northern witch camps. Last year, it put that number at more than 1,000. There are similar camps in Tanzania, and women flock from neighbouring Togo and Burkina Faso to Ghana's protective witch colonies.

Gambaga's chief, the Gambarana Yahaya Wuni, claims he can cure the women of witchcraft. From inside the dark mud hut that is his palace, Wuni — who wraps himself in sumptuous fabrics, carries a dark decorated walking stick and watches a 26-inch Sanyo television — won't talk about his powers, which sound strangely like sorcery. It's also taboo.

But interviews with other community members show the accused witches are made to drink a cleansing concoction and to participate in elaborate, secretive ceremonies that involve pouring libations of alcohol made from fermented Guinea corn millet and asking the chief's ancestors to help him rid the woman of witchcraft.

Although men accused of sorcery are cleansed by the chief and immediately return to their villages, few women return home, fearing they will be intimidated, discriminated against or worse.

Human-rights reports are littered with examples of women who were lynched or beaten by community members after being accused of witchcraft.

One of those women, known as Ayieshtu, returned to the Gambaga camp missing an ear after elders slashed it with a cutlass, warning her she would lose the other ear if she dared return.

"They are afraid they will kill them," Mohammed, the interpreter, said. "They are afraid of being killed."


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PostPosted: 29-01-2005 12:55    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know there are other similar stories to this one on here, I couldn't remember where they were posted.

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'Crossed leg spell' cast on team

A group of witches have cast a "bad luck" spell on Charlton Athletic and their manager Alan Curbishley.

The "cross-legged spell" was cast by Raquel Bailey - a wicca (white) witch and Yeovil Town supporter - at the stone circle at Ham Hill, Somerset.

She hopes the spell might make "something funny" happen to the team's legs when they approach the goalmouth.

"The spell is not evil, it's merely to help Yeovil in Saturday's FA cup game against Charlton," she said.


Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/somerset/4217583.stm
Published: 2005/01/29 04:37:16 GMT

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PostPosted: 29-01-2005 14:30    Post subject: Reply with quote

Note that the stone circle at Ham Hill mentioned in the article above is a very recent (and rather silly) addition to the site Wink
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PostPosted: 31-01-2005 10:57    Post subject: Reply with quote

And I would query whether or not hexing a footie team counts as white magic...
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PostPosted: 12-03-2005 01:31    Post subject: Reply with quote

More "witch" abuse:

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'Nymphomaniac' paraded naked in UP

Alka Rastogi
Lucknow, March 7, 2005



A woman, branded nymphomaniac by a local tantrik, was stripped naked, tarred, her head shaved and paraded naked on a donkey in Chandpur under Sarai Aqueel police station of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambhi district.

Known as Shastriji, the tantrik reportedly told his congregation that 17-year-old Usha had an insatiable sexual appetite and had slept with innumerable men. He said the teenager would continue to bed other men unless she was burnt alive on the stake for her infractions.

To make matters worse, Shastriji also held Usha responsible for the murder of a 5-year-old whose body was discovered in a pond some days ago. Claiming that he had seen the gruesome killing reenacted in a tumbler of mustard oil, the tantrik convinced everyone of Usha's guilt. She was subsequently denounced as a witch.

While many of the locals had made up their minds to consign Usha to the flames, what saved her was dissension from a section of the crowd. As a compromise, it was decided to publicly humiliate the girl by taking out a procession in which she would be carried naked. Usha's tormentors even shelled out money from their own pockets to hire a donkey and go through with their cruel plan.

Five people have so far been arrested in this connection. The charges against them include forcing a girl to strip, obscenity at a public place and assaulting her with canes. Vijay, Amarnath, Rajendra and Shyam Sunder are among those currently in police custody.

The local populace however hasn't taken kindly to the police action. Usha, they still believe, is a witch whom they had every right to attack. Although police say the child most likely drowned since the post-mortem report shows no external injury marks, no one seems willing to accept that explanation.

Senior police officials including the Sub-Divisional Magistrate are camping in the area to diffuse the situation following angry protests against the five arrests.


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Bloody hell, I dispair, it sounds like something from the Middle Ages. Sad
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PostPosted: 12-03-2005 16:00    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lethe wrote:
Bloody hell, I dispair, it sounds like something from the Middle Ages. Sad


Except the witches would be sent for a long deep swim in the local pond.
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And proved innocent if they drowned, of course..... Confused
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PostPosted: 02-05-2005 16:51    Post subject: Reply with quote

razorblimp wrote:
Lethe wrote:
Bloody hell, I dispair, it sounds like something from the Middle Ages. Sad


Except the witches would be sent for a long deep swim in the local pond.


Well there are numerous reports of witch killings in this thread:

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14434

This follows on form thefear of witches (and sounds like mass hysteria or an UL gone wild):

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News Updated on Monday, May 02, 2005 6:44:33 PM


Witch fear grips north Indian village!

Pursani | April 30, 2005 3:31:09 PM IST

The village of Gosaiganj, near Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow, is currently gripped by fears of a witch being in the vicinity. Although unbelievable, residents are said to be plastering their homes with imprints of palm to scare away the witch, who they say has cursed many families with diseases and claimed nearly half a dozen lives in the past few months.

The villagers describe the witch as a white-haired extremely old beggar woman, who visits several homes seeking bread and onions and then curses the unsuspecting residents.

Although, no one has seen her, the villagers are convinced that she is the one who is responsible for the illnesses and deaths, and the one who has unleashed a wave of evil spirits. They say that the curses of the alleged witch will keep on haunting them unless they protect themselves by sprinkling holy water and stamping their walls with the red and orange palm imprints.

Villagers say that the colours are an antidote to the demonic energies and will keep them at bay. Shanti Devi, who heard about the witch from her brother, says, the witch squeezes the onions, puts a spell on the juice and then vapourises it to affect the entire home.

"The witch comes in the form of an old beggar woman. She asks for bread and onion, once the lady of house gives it to her she squeezes the onion and then mishaps happen in the family. Everybody is taking precautions against her so I am also doing the same, " Shanti said.

Ever since the news broke, few dare to tread the village streets alone and children have been asked not to play in the fields. Neetu, a 20-year-old mother of two, said the witch also abducts kids.

"She asks for onions and bread and when you go inside the house she runs away with your child," she said.

Witchcraft is practiced in some parts of the country, with women being the worst sufferers. They are accused as witches for being unable to procure an heir or accused of using their "evil" powers to cause a prolonged illness in the family, they are raped, burned, beaten and even hacked to death.

Though government has passed a tough law requiring a three-month prison sentence for even calling a woman a witch and death penalty for the killers, convictions are rare.


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4530197.stm

Girl tortured 'for being a witch'

An eight-year-old girl was tortured and about to be killed after being accused of being a witch, the Old Bailey heard.

The court was told the Angolan girl was put in a bag and was to be thrown into a river before the attack was stopped.

The child's aunt, 38, and Sita Kisanga, 35, both from London, deny conspiracy to murder and several counts of child cruelty dating from November 2003.

Sebastian Pinto, 33, and Kiwonde Kiese, 21, both of Stoke Newington, deny aiding and abetting child cruelty.

Slapped and cut

Charges against the four defendants allege that chilli peppers were rubbed into the girl's eyes, she was beaten with a belt, slapped, cut with a knife and starved.

Prosecutor Patricia May said the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was brought to Britain from Angola in 2002 by one of the defendants, who claimed she was her daughter.

The girl's father had died in the fighting in the African country's civil war and her mother was also feared dead.

Miss May said the victim and her aunt went to live with Ms Kisanga at the beginning of 2003, when her ill-treatment started after another child told them she had performed witchcraft.

Miss May added: "That ill-treatment led to conduct which would, if it had not been stopped, led to fatal consequences."

She told the court the aunt and Ms Kisanga put the girl in a laundry bag, zipped it up and were about to throw it into the New River in Hackney, east London, until Mr Pinto stopped them.

Miss May said Mr Pinto told them: "If they did and it was discovered, the law and the rights of children in this country being what they were, they would go to prison."

Ms Kisanga's home was searched and a number of documents were found relating to sin, the devil and witchcraft.

Diary evidence

Miss May said her diary, written in the African language of Lingala, was also examined.

She told the court: "One entry for 16 November 2003 stated, 'There was indeed a prophesy she has ndoki [the Lingala word for witchcraft]'."

Miss May said a handwriting analysis had suggested there was strong evidence that the words were written by Ms Kisanga.

Miss May added: "This child was treated as a scapegoat by family members, tormented, subjected to all sorts of assaults which must have caused her considerable pain, fear and distress.

"All the defendants to a greater or lesser degree, participated in that conduct."

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Six People in Rural Southern Mexico Beaten for Allegedly Practicing Witchcraft

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Published: May 6, 2005



SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) - A mob beat six people accused of practicing witchcraft in a mountainous corner of Mexico's southernmost state, but police intervened before anyone was killed, authorities said Friday.

More than 100 inhabitants of the isolated and largely Indian town of Pantlho in Chiapas state gathered around midday Thursday, cornering six locals who were accused of gathering in a home for a witches' meeting, according to Armando Juarez, the community's mayor.

Responding to emergency calls, soldiers and police attempted to negotiate their way into the town as the mob beat its victims and made plans to hang them at a soccer stadium, Juarez said.

Authorities were able to disperse much of the crowd around 11 p.m. and had rescued the victims by the early hours of Friday morning. They were taken to medical centers in neighboring towns.

Residents demanded the victims be ordered to pay a 6,000 peso (US$545, euro420.95) fine because of local ordinances banning witchcraft.

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melf wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4530197.stm

Girl tortured 'for being a witch'

An eight-year-old girl was tortured and about to be killed after being accused of being a witch, the Old Bailey heard.

The court was told the Angolan girl was put in a bag and was to be thrown into a river before the attack was stopped.

The child's aunt, 38, and Sita Kisanga, 35, both from London, deny conspiracy to murder and several counts of child cruelty dating from November 2003.

Sebastian Pinto, 33, and Kiwonde Kiese, 21, both of Stoke Newington, deny aiding and abetting child cruelty.

(c) bbc 05


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June 04, 2005

Exorcist trio face jail for torturing 'witch', 8
By Nicola Woolcock

Cruelty case highlights plight of children caught by unholy mix of wild evangelicals and possession

THREE people who tortured an eight-year-old girl in brutal exorcism rites because they believed that she was a witch are facing long jail sentences after being convicted yesterday of child cruelty.

Sita Kisanga, 36, Sebastian Pinto, 33, and the child’s aunt, who cannot be identified, were found guilty of subjecting the child to 15 months of beatings and starvation. The girl, who testified at the Old Bailey trial via a videolink, is believed to be among hundreds of African children in the UK subjected to ritual abuse because of a belief in witchcraft fostered by the growth of unregulated evangelical churches.

In the wake of this case — and the murders of Victoria Climbie and Adam, the boy whose torso was found in the Thames — Scotland Yard has established Project Violet to tackle such crimes. The team was set up partly because the abuse of the girl was uncovered through “luck and chance”.

Five other investigations — four in London and one in the South West — are currently ongoing. In each case families allegedly believed that their children were possessed and wanted them to undergo exorcism.

Directors of Social Services across the UK have been alerted to the dangers posed by the belief in witchcraft and told to take a proactive approach with fringe churches.

The 38-year-old aunt began crying shortly before the verdicts were delivered. Kisanga smirked and Pinto remained impassive. Judge Christopher Moss said that prison terms were “inevitable” when the three, who are related, return for sentencing next month.

The aunt was found guilty of four counts of cruelty for slapping the girl, hitting her with a shoe and a belt, starving her, rubbing chilli peppers in her eyes, cutting her with a knife, and zipping her inside a laundry bag to make her think she would be thrown away.

Kisanga, of Hackney, East London, and Pinto, of Stoke Newington, North London, were convicted of aiding and abetting child cruelty. The two women were cleared of conspiracy to murder.

The girl’s plight was uncovered when she was found barefoot on the steps of a council flat in November 2003, 15 months after she was brought to Britain from Angola by her aunt. The girl was taken into care by Hackney Council but returned to her aunt a month later. The first doctor to examine her missed 43 wounds and scars on her body. She later said that she did not notice them because it was late afternoon and the light was dim.

Only after the aunt and child moved house and Haringey Council reopened the case was the full extent of her injuries discovered. The girl was re-interviewed and told police that her aunt was committing the abuse. Hackney Council has now opened an inquiry.

Child welfare groups say that thousands of African children go missing from British schools every year. Because of transient inner-city populations and the sensitivity surrounding race relations, many of the children are impossible to trace. Concerns are rising that many, especially those attending fundamentalist churches, may be subjected to abuse.

Detectives say that they have no way of gauging the true scale of the problem. They remain wary of inflaming relations with ethnic communities and lack the resources to police every suspicious home or place of worship. Many of the new churches, which spring up under the control of self-styled pastors, mix a belief in ndoki [witchcraft] and sorcery with fundamentalist Christianity.

Pardeep Gill, a child abuse expert, said: “More people believed in witchcraft than didn’t and there are tons of these churches. Anyone can say he is a pastor. There are some who use witchcraft as a means of controlling congregations.”

Dr Richard Hoskins, who is a specialist in African studies and advises police, said: “It’s thought children can catch witchcraft by taking infected bread from a witch. The deliverance process requires fasting for three days then the confrontation begins.”

Kisanga had attended the Spiritual Warfare church, in Hackney, which observers say believes fervently in the need for permanent vigilance against the forces of witchcraft. Police say the pastor of the church was co-operative and disapproved strongly of the treatment of the girl.

Detective Inspector Brian Mather, who led the investigation, said: “This was a distressing case involving a child who suffered at the hands of adults who should have cared for and protected her. The girl is now healthy, happy and living with a foster family in London.”

AFRICAN WITCHCRAFT

# Theologians believe that there are hundreds of small, unregistered churches practising exorcisms across Britain
# In many African churches exorcism takes place after a “possessed” person has fasted for three days
# “Ndoki” is a term used throughout West Africa to describe witchcraft, or a possessed person
# In many African societies a medical condition that cannot be treated is often ascribed to the work of an evil-doer, or “ndoki”

# Children are specially susceptible to “ndoki”, which they can become by eating bread infected with an evil spirit
# Exorcism usually involves beating the victim, which has sometimes resulted in death


Copyright 2005 Times Newspapers Ltd.



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Detectives say that they have no way of gauging the true scale of the problem. They remain wary of inflaming relations with ethnic communities and lack the resources to police every suspicious home or place of worship.


Meaning they are scared of being called racists and anti religion.

(What about the sensible treatment of our islamic poplace then? is it because it is far easier to police a purley imaginary evil??)



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Who are these Theologians?? Why isnt this more widley known??
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