2nd Jan, 2014: A 10-year-old boy, who was allegedly abducted, was found dead with his body parts chopped, in Ratanpur, a religious town of Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district. While villagers strongly suspect it to be a case of human sacrifice, police believe that it is a case of some wild animal attacking the boy. Read more here.
1st January, 2014: Kristine McGuire, a wife and mother, became intrigued with ghost hunting and witchcraft and attempted to blend the occult with her Christian faith until she encountered a demonic spirit. Read more here.
1st January, 2014: A 44-year-old Egyptian man threatened Saudi police trying to arrest him for sorcery to unleash ‘jinn’ against them. But despite his arrest, he did not carry out his threat. Read more here.
25th November: A group of residents accused a woman, who was in her 60s, of bewitching the bus driver in the Moloto Road accident. After the police had taken the woman away the group burnt down her house. Hlathi said police would decide in the course of the day how many of the 33 would be charged with arson. Read more here.
24th November: A Calvary Family Church (CFC) Pastor is Blantyre sent mourners in stitches when he challenged people priding in underhand innovations like witchcraft to come in the open and declare their inventions to the United Nations (UN) if they were worth bragging about. Read more here.
26th November: Police on Monday arrested two brothers on suspicion of killing a four-year-old child for black magic at Tapang area in Khurda. “Though there was no external injury on the body, we suspect it was a case of child sacrifice. Prima facie, we suspect he was strangulated. One of the accused was practicing witchcraft”. Read more here.
27th November: Three of a family, including a woman, have been allegedly killed on the suspicion of practising witchcraft and their bodies recovered today in Assam’s Nagaon district, police said. The bodies of the two brothers and the wife of one of them, missing since last week, was recovered from a pit dug to bury them in Ranglur Pukhuribasti. Read more here.
November 27th: The man, who faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, is accused of raping the niece of his girlfriend and her two elder sisters. The 41-year-old mother of the girls, who allegedly gave her consent to the rituals, also went on trial for complicity. Read more here.
6th November: A forty-three year old man in Nakonde District has been hacked to death by unknown people on suspicion that he was practising witchcraft. Muchinga Province Commissioner of Police Lemmy Kajoba said yesterday that an axe was found stuck in the neck of the victim at the time police picked the body. Read more here.
5th NOvember: Thirteen superstitious rituals have classified as evil practices and amount to severe punishment according the draft model legislation on anti-superstition. The bill, which envisages the creation of a Karnataka Anti-Superstition Authority, has listed practices such as siddubhukti, maata, okuli, bettale seve, panktibheda and made snana as criminal offences. Read more here.
