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India: Sorcery slur on Dalit family

Witchcraft, which has seen many innocent persons being offended, tortured and even murdered in rural Odisha, has hit a Dalit family hard at Kashipur village in Rayagada district. The family has been ostracized by villagers for the past 20 months allegedly for practising sorcery.

With the village out of bounds to them, Angad Naik with his family of five, including two sons and a daughter, are residing at a small hut in his field at Silagummapadar, 3 km from block headquarters of Kashipur.

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Kenya: Suspected witch escapes lynching as chief is injured

A senior chief’s mission to rescue a suspected witch in Kisii County landed him in hospital.

Caleb Okengo was mercilessly beaten up by an angry mob in Nyamondo location when he arrived at an elderly woman’s home to rescue her from irate villagers.

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Uganda: Kid Survives Child Sacrifice, Returned to Mother

Police in Kyengera yesterday officially handed over Katongole Thaddeus, a four year-old boy who survived being sold to a traditional doctor.

Man Byakatonda, Thaddeus’ father, who tried to sell him for Shs 15m to a traditional healer in Nsangi, was arrested by police and detained.

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Russia: Man Jailed for 12 Years in Russia Over Ritual Satanist Killing

A Russian satanist has been jailed for 12 years for murdering a fellow sect member during a ritual near Moscow. During a ceremony in May 2011, the man tied up his victim and beat him with sticks. He then went on to strangle the sect member to death, investigators said.

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South Africa: Police must pay healers falsely accused of muti murder

South Africa: Gruesome muti-murder accused, Afrikaans builder Eduard Pretorius 33, slaughtered Maria Mathe

Gruesome muti-murder: first-ever known incident where an Afrikaans-speaking man is accused of a muti-murder (slaughtering a person and harvesting the body parts for resale to a witch doctor).

Local Swartruggens builder Eduard Pretorius, 33 is to appear in Swartruggens court on Feb 7 2014: the SAPS says he ‘s charged with slaughtering Maria Mathe, 25, and that he has confessed that he was offered R30,000 for her body-parts by a local witch-doctor.

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Philippines: Three Muslim brothers butcher their mother in a ritual killing before eating her organs

Neighbors reported hearing strange noises coming from the family home for days before the body of Musala Amil, 56, was found in Ampatuan, Philippines. Police discovered the badly mutilated body with several parts missing, drained of blood. Brothers Dante, 35, Paroy, 21, and the youngest Ibrahim, 18, all deny killing their mother.

They said they had been trying to drive away an illness they believed was brought on by a bad spirit. 

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Zambia: Ritual killings on the rise in Zambia

Mutilated bodies – often missing arms, tongues, lips, genitals or skin – are being found with increasing frequency in different parts of Zambia in what authorities say are ritual killings.

Recently, the dismembered body of a 19-year-old student, from which certain body parts and facial skin had been removed, was discovered in Lusaka.

In the Sinazeze Township in the Southern Province, two businessmen were recently arrested after being caught attempting to purchase a cadaver – along with a number of body parts – for 45,000 kwacha (roughly $882).

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USA: More Charges Against Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch’ Pending; Victims Family Speaks Out

A Henderson woman is in jail tonight charged with three counts of first degree sexual abuse. Henderson Police say Smith tried to scare her alleged victims into silence by claiming to be a practicing witch. Meanwhile, a family member of an alleged victim says the family is trying to ‘move on.’

Henderson Police say Smith engaged in sexual activities with a number of children ages 6 to 13.

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India: ‘Sorcerer’ sentenced to death in India for decapitating a baby and drinking its blood in occult ritual

An Indian man has been sentenced to death after decapitating a baby and drinking the child’s blood. The incident took place two years ago during an occult ritual in Kalakuri village in Bankura, West Bengal, Indian media reports.

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