Indian women beaten/killed for being "witches"

[khalidali7070]

Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state.
Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.
The incident occurred on Sunday in a remote village in Deoghar district.
Correspondents say the abuse of women who are branded as witches is common, but rare footage of the incident has caused outrage across India.
Police went to Pattharghatia village after being informed about the incident by a group of villagers.
'Possessed'
They have lodged a case against 11 villagers, including six women. Four people have been arrested in connection with the incident.

The victims were taken to a playground where hundreds had assembled to watch
Murari Lal Meena
Deputy police inspector general
Armed police have since been deployed to the area.
"On Sunday morning the victims were taken to a playground where hundreds had assembled to watch the ghastly incident," deputy inspector general of police Murari Lal Meena told the BBC.
"No one in the mob came forward to rescue the victims as they were being stripped and beaten up," he said.
The victims are now under police protection.
Police say that people in Pattharghatia believe that certain women in their village are possessed by a "holy spirit" that can identify those who practise witchcraft.
"These women recently identified five women from the same village as being witches who practised witchcraft and brought miseries to the area," a police official said.
Soon, an unruly mob broke into their huts, dragged them out and started beating them up.
Footage of the incident has been aired on television channels in India prompting outrage.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, have been killed in India because their neighbours thought they were witches.
Experts say superstitious beliefs are behind some of these attacks, but there are occasions when people - especially widows - are targeted for their land and property.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8315980.stm



I dont even know what to say about the above. :******: :******: :******:


And the local cleric he should be striped naked and made to sit of a plastic pole, and should be feed what every feces one can get their hands on. Where did we get these jahils from. No wonder we as Muslims are going through what is happening to us, it is because we have appointed the clerics who have this type of thinking and who them selves are not followers of in fact who don't even know any thing about true Islam.

 

[Khalil]

This is a common practice in many villagers throughout the world and is a huge problem in South Africa's villages.

See link below

http://www.rickross.com/reference/african_sects/african_sects8.html

 

[kingusama92]

I would love to see these idiots paraded around naked eating Bull**** that seems to be coming out of their mouths right now.

 

[mindless slogging]

I don't even believe these are clerics. Rather they are just tribe leaders who are given a position of authority and people just assume it's religiously based.

Eating excrement? I wonder where he got that from?

 

[lil saeed anwar]

I would love to see these idiots paraded around naked eating Bull**** that seems to be coming out of the mouth right now.

indeed

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Village 'witches' beaten in India

Amazing that in this day and age people can still be so backward -

Village 'witches' beaten in India By Salman Ravi BBC News,

Ranchi Footage of 'witches' being abused by a mob in India Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8315980.stm

 

[Xpakistani]

India: Five women stripped, paraded naked in Jharkhand

Five women were stripped and paraded naked in Deoghar district of Jharkhand after being charged of witchcraft, police said on Monday.

Five women, including three widows, were forcibly brought to a field Sunday in Patharghatia village in Deoghar, about 350 km from state capital Ranchi. They were stripped and paraded naked and two of them were forced to eat excreta, police said.

"Sushila Kumahrin, Sagiran Beebi, Hafijan Beebi, Sujan Beebi and Gulnar Beebi were tortured to accept that they were witches and practise black magic. The incident took place at the instruction of a witch doctor. The witch doctor said that these women were practising black magic and were causing problems in the village," a police officer said.

The women were rescued when local government officials and police reached the spot. However, the perpetrators managed to escape.

According to reports, hundreds of people witnessed the incident.

"We have lodged an FIR (First Information Report) against 11 people, including six women. We will soon arrest the perpetrators," the officer added.

Majority of perpetrators were Muslims and four of the five victims belonged to the same community.

In Jharkhand, women are subjected to different forms of torture after being branded witches. There are instances when women have been paraded naked, forced to eat human excreta and even killed.

According to official data, more than 700 people, majority of them women, were killed after being branded witches. The witch doctors manage to escape as people fear black magic if they are named.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Five-women-stripped-paraded-naked/H1-Article1-466667.aspx

 

[mindless slogging]

I think this has been posted before.

 

[moumotta]

Again.

The same incident happened a week ago.

 

[OZGOD]

Why would you make someone eat excreta?

 

[tdigi]

There are retards everywhere and this is one example of it...

 

[Khalil]

Why would you make someone eat excreta?

Ask white South Africans. Recently white students at the University of the Free State forced black workers to drink their urine and mixed excreta in their food

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On the segregated campus of South Africa's University of the Free State this weekend, tensions were thunderously high as black students planned a mass protest for tomorrow against the white students who made a video humiliating their black cleaners.

The film has gone around the world on the internet and sent the country into shock. All the more so because the young students are products of post-apartheid South Africa with its rainbow nation aspirations. Black student leader Tom Thabane, 20, wants two white students expelled and their hostel, Reitz, to be closed. 'Reitz is like a cult. If you walk past there, they shout abuse and throw white napkins at you,' he said.

The two offending residents, Roelof Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe, 22-year-old agriculture students, are among four white men who filmed the mock freshman's initiation of five black cleaners. In one scene, a student is shown urinating into a bowl of soup before it is apparently served to the kneeling cleaners - four middle-aged women and a man - who are also seen being made to run a race, play rugby and down beer. The film ends with a caption in Afrikaans that reads: 'At the end of the day, this is what we really think of integration.'

'It wasn't real urine, honestly,' one white lad claimed. 'If you look closely at the video, you can see he has a little water bottle tucked under his T-shirt.'

Reitz hostel, a group of bungalows in the verdant campus of the university named after a premier of the Orange Free State, one of the early Boer republics, yesterday remained under police guard while groups of students - each racially distinct - went about their business. An elderly black car park attendant, who identified himself only as Michael, said: 'There is going to be fighting. The blacks are going to get their revenge for those ladies. We've had many race riots here, and now there will be more. The Free State is the mother of apartheid.'

But Reitz residence head Christo Dippenaar denied the 120-bed hostel was a hotbed of racism resisting the university's integration moves. 'If you are going to put white and black together, there will be tension. There has to be something to bind them and we believe the link is rugby. Reitz has been a finalist or winner of the National Residences Competition for the past 12 years. So we told the authorities that we want to select our black residents. They refused, though out of the eight black residents they sent us, four play rugby.'

'If any harm was done, we as a hostel are sorry. But the guys who made the video are my brothers - so I'm not going to say it was good or bad,' he said.

The university has advised Malherbe and Van der Merwe to stay away for the time being. They are to face a disciplinary council, though it is unclear when this will take place. The other two filmmakers, Daniel Grobler and Johnny Roberts, both 26, graduated last year.

Dippenaar, 37, said the video was made as part of last year's initiation events for first-year students. He explained: 'It was just a prank. Reitz has a strong tradition of initiation. The first year students have to make the tea and there's this thing we do where we pee in the teapot. So we have a lot of jokes around urine.

'We made two other films for culture day, do you want to see them?' A laptop is produced. One film begins with sound effects of a student masturbating in the lavatory, another with mock drug-taking. All participants are white. 'The black ladies are our friends. They had a good laugh at the film. They saw it in September and they worked here without saying anything until a few days ago when the university put them on leave.

'Most of the boys at Reitz are from farm areas. They have grown up with a black woman in the kitchen who is like a second mum. These ladies sort of take over that role when the guys come to university,' he said.

Lawyer Lesley Mokgoro said the workers had not been aware of what they were taking part in. 'They are very hurt,' he said.

Dippenaar claims the row has been seized on by politicians to distract the nation from its everyday woes, including electricity power cuts and divisions in the ruling ANC party. 'Why don't they sort out Zimbabwe instead?' he asked. 'This reminds me of 1994 and before, when we, the Afrikaaners, were blamed for everything by the whole world.'

Two black residents arrive but do not wish to give their names. Medical student Wim Hiddema, 22, said: 'They have a right not to talk. They will be in danger from other blacks if they say anything.' He claims the film was passed to the media by militant members of the South African Students' Congress (Sasco). Sasco denies the claim.

'We are not against whites. We are against racism,' said Thabane. 'We are living in modern South Africa. We come from multiracial schools. The time has come for us not to tolerate segregation.'

In 2007 the university senate finally passed a motion to integrate hostels. A 70-30 per cent split has been reached in female hostels, but in traditionally white male hostels, fewer than 15 per cent are black. No white students this year took up accommodation in black hostels, opting to find digs off campus.

 

[cricket_fever]

Ask white South Africans. Recently white students at the University of the Free State forced black workers to drink their urine and mixed excreta in their food

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On the segregated campus of South Africa's University of the Free State this weekend, tensions were thunderously high as black students planned a mass protest for tomorrow against the white students who made a video humiliating their black cleaners.

The film has gone around the world on the internet and sent the country into shock. All the more so because the young students are products of post-apartheid South Africa with its rainbow nation aspirations. Black student leader Tom Thabane, 20, wants two white students expelled and their hostel, Reitz, to be closed. 'Reitz is like a cult. If you walk past there, they shout abuse and throw white napkins at you,' he said.

The two offending residents, Roelof Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe, 22-year-old agriculture students, are among four white men who filmed the mock freshman's initiation of five black cleaners. In one scene, a student is shown urinating into a bowl of soup before it is apparently served to the kneeling cleaners - four middle-aged women and a man - who are also seen being made to run a race, play rugby and down beer. The film ends with a caption in Afrikaans that reads: 'At the end of the day, this is what we really think of integration.'

'It wasn't real urine, honestly,' one white lad claimed. 'If you look closely at the video, you can see he has a little water bottle tucked under his T-shirt.'

Reitz hostel, a group of bungalows in the verdant campus of the university named after a premier of the Orange Free State, one of the early Boer republics, yesterday remained under police guard while groups of students - each racially distinct - went about their business. An elderly black car park attendant, who identified himself only as Michael, said: 'There is going to be fighting. The blacks are going to get their revenge for those ladies. We've had many race riots here, and now there will be more. The Free State is the mother of apartheid.'

But Reitz residence head Christo Dippenaar denied the 120-bed hostel was a hotbed of racism resisting the university's integration moves. 'If you are going to put white and black together, there will be tension. There has to be something to bind them and we believe the link is rugby. Reitz has been a finalist or winner of the National Residences Competition for the past 12 years. So we told the authorities that we want to select our black residents. They refused, though out of the eight black residents they sent us, four play rugby.'

'If any harm was done, we as a hostel are sorry. But the guys who made the video are my brothers - so I'm not going to say it was good or bad,' he said.

The university has advised Malherbe and Van der Merwe to stay away for the time being. They are to face a disciplinary council, though it is unclear when this will take place. The other two filmmakers, Daniel Grobler and Johnny Roberts, both 26, graduated last year.

Dippenaar, 37, said the video was made as part of last year's initiation events for first-year students. He explained: 'It was just a prank. Reitz has a strong tradition of initiation. The first year students have to make the tea and there's this thing we do where we pee in the teapot. So we have a lot of jokes around urine.

'We made two other films for culture day, do you want to see them?' A laptop is produced. One film begins with sound effects of a student masturbating in the lavatory, another with mock drug-taking. All participants are white. 'The black ladies are our friends. They had a good laugh at the film. They saw it in September and they worked here without saying anything until a few days ago when the university put them on leave.

'Most of the boys at Reitz are from farm areas. They have grown up with a black woman in the kitchen who is like a second mum. These ladies sort of take over that role when the guys come to university,' he said.

Lawyer Lesley Mokgoro said the workers had not been aware of what they were taking part in. 'They are very hurt,' he said.

Dippenaar claims the row has been seized on by politicians to distract the nation from its everyday woes, including electricity power cuts and divisions in the ruling ANC party. 'Why don't they sort out Zimbabwe instead?' he asked. 'This reminds me of 1994 and before, when we, the Afrikaaners, were blamed for everything by the whole world.'

Two black residents arrive but do not wish to give their names. Medical student Wim Hiddema, 22, said: 'They have a right not to talk. They will be in danger from other blacks if they say anything.' He claims the film was passed to the media by militant members of the South African Students' Congress (Sasco). Sasco denies the claim.

'We are not against whites. We are against racism,' said Thabane. 'We are living in modern South Africa. We come from multiracial schools. The time has come for us not to tolerate segregation.'

In 2007 the university senate finally passed a motion to integrate hostels. A 70-30 per cent split has been reached in female hostels, but in traditionally white male hostels, fewer than 15 per cent are black. No white students this year took up accommodation in black hostels, opting to find digs off campus.

it is sad 2 hear things lyk this r still happening ryt here in SA.....i mean apartheid his is history and 4 ppl 2 still behave lyk that is very shameful....by the way my dad was telling me that when he was younger there was an india primeminister or something like that his surname was "desai" and he used to drink his own urine....and from that day some kids started calling urine "desai cola"! i dont know whether 2 believe that!

 

[tdigi]

it is sad 2 hear things lyk this r still happening ryt here in SA.....i mean apartheid his is history and 4 ppl 2 still behave lyk that is very shameful....by the way my dad was telling me that when he was younger there was an india primeminister or something like that his surname was "desai" and he used to drink his own urine....and from that day some kids started calling urine "desai cola"! i dont know whether 2 believe that!

It's true. Urine is good for the heart. One peg a day keeps the doctor away.
lol

 

[Paradox]

The two offending residents, Roelof Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe,

Okay - this is off-topic, but if you take the first name of the first guy, and the surname of the second guy, you get Roelof van der Merwe

Sorry, that was just too tempting.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Indian athlete Debjani Bora beaten in 'witch hunt'

An Indian athlete has described how she was tied up and severely beaten after being branded a witch in her village in the north-eastern state of Assam.

Debjani Bora, a javelin thrower who has won several gold medals, fears her injuries may prevent her representing India in a forthcoming Asian contest.

One woman has been arrested for inciting a crowd to attack Ms Bora.

Witch hunts targeting women are common in parts of India and a number of those accused are killed every year.

Experts say superstitious beliefs are behind some of these attacks, but there are occasions when people - especially widows - are targeted for their land and property.

The latest incident took place earlier this week in Ms Bora's home village in the remote hill district of Karbi Anglong, where she also makes a living as a farm worker and lives with her husband and three children.

'Targeted'
She was blamed in the wake of the the deaths of four people in the village, including one man who took his own life.

Police said villagers dragged her to a community prayer hall to face a "public trial on charges of being a witch".

Ms Bora recounted her experience to journalists on Wednesday.

"Instead of finding out why all the deaths occurred, some village elders suspected a witch was driving the people to death and organised a prayer. As the villagers were chanting hymns, one elderly woman identified me as the witch and shouted that I should be punished," she said.

"I was blamed for all these deaths in the village, wrapped up in fishing nets and beaten up severely."

She was taken to a local clinic, where she regained consciousness on Wednesday.

Karbi Anglong police chief Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta said one woman was arrested on Thursday after Ms Bora's family filed a complaint with the police.

"We suspect that she may have targeted Ms Bora for personal reasons," Mr Mahanta said.

Branding women as witches is particularly prevalent among tribal communities and tea plantation workers in Assam.

Nearly 90 people, mostly women, have been beheaded, burnt alive or stabbed to death after such accusations over the last five years, police say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-29655662

Its not clear whether they are christian or hindu but whatever the case..... How are these practices not cracked down on heavily by the authorities.

 

[90MPH]

Wth 90 people beheaded and burnt alive ?

I guess this story got attention cause she was an athlete.

 

[Saeed]

90 people died like this, just like this in last 5 years. Yet the media only pay attention to Muslims, this is truly disgusting.

 

[dhump]

India woman killed in 'witch hunt'

An Indian woman has been killed by relatives who suspected her of practising witchcraft, police said.

They said Dukalheen Bai died after she was stripped, beaten and tortured for hours by her brother-in-law Nakul Patel and several other family members.

Mr Patel is believed to have accused her of making his son ill by practising witchcraft on him.

Witch hunts targeting women are common in parts of India and a number of those accused are killed every year.

The latest incident took place in Bemetara district in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Mr Patel is among 10 people, including five women, have arrested in connection with the killing. He is not thought to have made any public comment as yet.

"My mother was beaten up very badly. She kept screaming but the entire village just watched. I protested, but couldn't save my mother," Dukalheen Bai's son Ashok Patel told BBC Hindi.

Branding women as witches is particularly prevalent among tribal communities in India.

Experts say superstitious beliefs are behind some of these attacks, but there are occasions when people - especially widows - are targeted for their land and property.

Earlier this month, athlete Debjani Bora, a javelin thrower who has won several gold medals, told the BBC how she was tied up and severely beaten after being branded a witch in her village in the north-eastern state of Assam.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29782808

This has to stop seriously how can you do it to someone. I cant even imagine the pain her son went through to see all of this and being helpless to do anything about it.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Morons.

Sick fools.

 

[Firebreaker]

These stupid activities only happen in India

 

[KarachiKing]

superstitions.

even in some Pakistan ivillages ppl believe too much in superstition

if you really look at it then all these problems were prevalent in Medieval Europe and N America. Religious intolerance, ethnic and religion based riots, lack of education, superstion. You name it

 

[mithun_minhas]

Read this news today. People still believe in Babas, peers, Taweez, miracles, witches, evil spirits, soothe sayers, astrology.......... what not..

Its easier to become a Baba than get a Govt job in India. Just start preaching some holy texts and a whole line of Aunty's and Granny's will line up to fall on your feet. They will literally be your slaves and will do anything you say.

 

[desi_launda]

This is to be expected,with little or no development in the North East

 

[TM Riddle]

These stupid activities only happen in India

True man.So much for a secular nation.

 

[Firebreaker]

Modi ji needs to work on these social matters

 

[Indiafan]

superstitions.

even in some Pakistan ivillages ppl believe too much in superstition

if you really look at it then all these problems were prevalent in Medieval Europe and N America. Religious intolerance, ethnic and religion based riots, lack of education, superstion. You name it

More than just superstitions this is some corrupt people using it to put down women. Whenever a women is alone or a widow and has property they do these kind of things to get her out of the way. Happens a lot in villages

 

[MRSN]

Family of six hacked to death for witchcraft in eastern India

BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian couple and four of their children were hacked to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of practicing witchcraft and making their children sick, police in the eastern state of Odisha said on Monday.

The victims were asleep in their mud house in the hamlet of Lahanda in Keonjhar district, when a group of around five people armed with axes broke in.

The suspects, believed to be relatives of the family, accused the victims of being behind for a spate of frequent illnesses among infants in the village, said police.

District Superintendent of Police Kavita Jalan said two surviving children alerted authorities.

The police reached the village in the early hours of Monday to find the mutilated bodies in pools of blood, an ax abandoned inside the hut, and a young boy still alive.

"The eight-year-old boy was found by police gasping between the dead bodies," Jalan told Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that a search was being conducted to find the suspects, who had fled the village after the incident.

The practice of branding men and women as witches and assaulting or killing them remains common is some parts of India, particularly among tribal communities, despite there being a law against it.

There were 160 cases of murders linked to witch hunts in 2013, and 119 in 2012, data from the National Crime Records Bureau shows.

In a separate incident, police on Monday recovered the remains of a man who was beaten to death and burnt by a mob over allegations of sorcery in Rayagada district, also in Odisha state.

Charity workers say as well as trying to disabuse some tribes of superstitious beliefs, the government needs to focus on education and economic development.

India's tribes make up more than 8 percent of its 1.2 billion population. Yet many live on the margins of society - inhabiting remote villages and eking out a living from farming, cattle rearing and collecting and selling forest produce.

Social indicators in these communities, including literacy, child malnutrition and maternal mortality, are among the lowest in the country. Neglect by the authorities and a Maoist insurgency in the country’s central tribal belt have further exacerbated their plight.

"People believe in superstition because they do not have health care. They are uneducated. Unless we provide them these basic facilities, the situation will not improve," said Debendra Sutar, secretary of the Odisha Rationalist Society, a charity.

(Reporting by Jatindra Dash. Editing by Nita Bhalla and Leslie Gevirtz. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)

http://news.yahoo.com/family-six-hacked-death-witchcraft-eastern-india-153550210.html

so much ignorance in this world!!

 

[Lurker_Ind]

Terrible incident. Witchcraft is part of Tribal culture in many parts of India.

 

[PCP_1]

Damn these Muggles and Halfbloods. Since Voldermorts demise more and more Deatheaters are being systematically hunted down and executed indiscriminately without access to a half decent defence lawyer or a fair trial. This is not what Dumbeldore died for.

 

[Saeed]

India is a really backward country. So much for modi's vision to develop India. Instead of funding terrorists in other countries India should spend more on toilets and Education. BTW ISIS kills people for witchcraft so another similarity between ISIS and Modi's India.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Terrible incident. Witchcraft is part of Tribal culture in many parts of India.

I was surprised to read that 8% of the population is still living in such tribal cultures. Bad enough to hack to death adults as witches, but even the kids aren't spared.

 

[Abhilash93]

India is a really backward country. So much for modi's vision to develop India. Instead of funding terrorists in other countries India should spend more on toilets and Education. BTW ISIS kills people for witchcraft so another similarity between ISIS and Modi's India.

Is it just me or you really had an Indian flag in your profile a few days ago ?

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

A 63-year-old Indian woman has been dismembered and beheaded by machete-wielding villagers who accused her of practising witchcraft.

Seven people have been arrested over the death of Moni Orang, a mother of five who was seized from her home in the northeastern state of Assam on Monday after local priests said she was casting spells.

'The attackers armed with machetes and other crude implements descended on the village and took away Moni Orang from her house and then brutally killed her,' senior police official Manabendra Dev Roy told AFP.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3169182/Indian-villagers-behead-woman-witchcraft.html

Now a mother of 5 is hacked to death and dismembered in Assam for practising witchcraft.

 

[KingKhanWC]

India 'witch hunters' kill mother and four children

Police in India are searching for more suspects in connection with the murder of a woman and her four children who were accused of being "witches".

Six people in the eastern state of Orissa have already been arrested, but police believe more people were involved in the crime.

The bodies of Mangri Munda and her children were found in a well near their home on 26 January.

"Witch hunts" targeting women are fairly common in parts of India.

Senior police officer Kavita Jalan told the BBC that the main accused, who has been arrested, claimed to be a "witch doctor".

He had accused Ms Munda and her children, who lived in a tribal settlement in Sundergarh district, of "casting spells" on another family in the village.

On 25 January, a group of men broke into Ms Munda's home late at night when she and her two sons and two daughters - aged one, four, seven and 12 respectively - were asleep. They attacked them with wooden sticks and an axe before dumping their bodies inside a well.

Police say they are looking for others who were involved in the crime and will make more arrests.

"It is necessary to raise awareness among people in the village against such superstitious activities," Ms Jalan added.

Murders related to "witchcraft" are on the rise in Orissa, despite an act which bans witch hunts. Nine people were given the death penalty last year for murdering three members of a family who were accused of being witches.

Women are also frequently targeted in the states of Assam and Jharkhand for similar reasons.

Police records state that 99 cases of "witch hunting" were reported in Orissa in 2017, which is an increase from the previous year, when 83 cases were reported.

Experts say superstitious beliefs are behind some of these attacks, but there are occasions when people - especially widows - are targeted for their land and property.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47053166



RIP to the mother and children. Seems like some believe this while others use it to take land.

 

[troodon]

^ Witchcraft and sorcery is widely prevalent among many tribal groups in India. It is also popular in Telengana and Andhra. Some people in family get sick, they blame it on some other family who they may have rivalry with.
Rationalists have done good job in challenging these superstitions. But for some, these things are too real to not to believe in.

 

[CricketCartoons]

^ Witchcraft and sorcery is widely prevalent among many tribal groups in India. It is also popular in Telengana and Andhra. Some people in family get sick, they blame it on some other family who they may have rivalry with.
Rationalists have done good job in challenging these superstitions. But for some, these things are too real to not to believe in.

Witchcraft and sorcery are popular? Please revisit the meaning of popular.

On topic. the tribals are behaving like medieval british who were known for witch-hunts and even the current lot have kept such primitive and backward practices alive in popular culture through harry potter.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Police should set an example here so that no such incidents may occur in future.

Feel bad for children and their mother.

RIP

 

[troodon]

Witchcraft and sorcery are popular? Please revisit the meaning of popular.

On topic. the tribals are behaving like medieval british who were known for witch-hunts and even the current lot have kept such primitive and backward practices alive in popular culture through harry potter.

You go to remote villages in Andhra and Telengana. Black magic is as real as Sun and Moon to them. Its called Cheta Badi there. We keep hearing about the killings, beatings and parading naked for all who are suspected to be witches and spirits.

 

[KingKhanWC]

You go to remote villages in Andhra and Telengana. Black magic is as real as Sun and Moon to them. Its called Cheta Badi there. We keep hearing about the killings, beatings and parading naked for all who are suspected to be witches and spirits.

How is a person suspected of being a witch?

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Witchcraft and sorcery are popular? Please revisit the meaning of popular.

On topic. the tribals are behaving like medieval british who were known for witch-hunts and even the current lot have kept such primitive and backward practices alive in popular culture through harry potter.

I don't think even the medieval British would beat one year old kids to death on account of being witches, seems like Indian tribals are more fanatically puritan than even medieval Brits could ever be.

 

[troodon]

How is a person suspected of being a witch?

Anyone with enmity to the family is always a prime suspect. Mysterious illnesses(Viral and bacterial) are always blamed on rivals. If they find a piece of hair in a cloth that belongs to their family near the rivals place, it means black magic was done. This is actually pretty light. The worst form is the demon/spirit possessing individuals. They get brutally tortured in public and beaten to pulp in a bid to get rid of the evil spirit.

 

[shah_1]

It happened recently in Pakistan as well .


Brother killed his sister by throwing her in the well because some baba told them him she has got evil forces inside her. Twisted minds

 

[PakLFC]

Such stupid superstitions are all over the subcontinent. It happens in Pak as well.