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Sri Lanka: Witch doctor proves bad medicine for barber, children escape by a hair’s breadth

The two children who were plucked from a watery grave, after their father threw them into the Nilwala Ganga in Matara on Thursday, are being held under police guard in a special enclosure at Matara Hospital.

According to HQI Prashantha, the father, a barber by profession, had consulted the witch doctor shortly after the just concluded Sinhala New Year, believing he had hit a bad patch, as his earnings had dropped and there was growing disharmony within the family.

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Zambia: Police Looking For Witchdoctor Who Initiated Children Into Witchcraft

Mufulira district commissioner, Chanda Kabwe, confirmed in an interview that the matter was reported to his office by five concerned parents of some of the children. Police in Mufulira are looking for a named witch doctor reported to have initiated more than 20 children into witchcraft in the district.

Chanda Kabwe in an interview said the witch doctor tattooed the juveniles, gave them medicine to take and told them that they would be good fighters, protected and intelligent at school. The witch doctor is said to have charged the children an undisclosed amount of money.

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Zimbabwe: Stark naked ‘witch’ caught red-handed after Makandiwa’s Judgement Night

In a case of suspected witchcraft, a Chitungwiza Family from Unit F that worships at Prophet Makandiwa’s UFI church was flabbergasted beyond measure to return home Monday morning after the immensely popular event dubbed Judgment Night 2, only to find a nude 24 year old “witch” stuck near their house, with a keen excited mob keeping an eye on her.

According to witnesses, the 24 year old Catherine Mugwande reportedly retired to bed on Sunday evening after watching a scary Witchcraft related African Movie. The following morning she woke up stark naked sitting on a pile of dry maize stems. She reportedly claimed that she had no idea how she ended up there.

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Philippines: Three Brothers Brutally Murder Their Mother And Eat Her Organs In Would-Be Ritual Killing

Last Wednesday, three filipino brothers brutally murdered their mother and ate her organs in what police are calling a ritual killing.

According to ABS-CBN News, neighbors reported hearing odd noises coming from the family’s home days before the body of 56-year-old Musala Amil was found in Ampatuan, Philippines.

The body was discovered to have several parts and a great deal of blood missing. Investigators believe the sons ate parts of their mother’s body raw after a murder that took place.

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Democratic Republic of Congo: Witnessing ‘child witch’ exorcism in the DR Congo

In 2010, Unicef reported 20,000 children accused of witchcraft were living on the streets of DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa. In the DR Congo, accusing a child of being possessed is a criminal offence, a law that has been in place for several years. But in 2008 I travelled to Kinshasa to see if it was making any difference and, at that time, the answer was not at all.

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Nigeria: Woman stuck under Lagos drainage accused of being a flying witch

One young woman was rescued from a gutter around Abalti Barracks, Ojuelegba,Lagos on Friday morning.

Easy media reports that a passer-by spotted her calling for help when he ran to the barracks to get help. It took extra effort to cut open the barricade and a good Samaritan to bring her out. She came out stack naked.

Upon interrogation, she said in tears “My name is Amudat Jimoh, it was God that sent me here. He said I should confess my sins so that I don’t die, please I need water to drink, help me. I don’t know how I found myself here, please help me.”

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South Africa: Mystery yet reality – the practice of ‘Juju’ and human trafficking

During my career as investigator with the Hawks I have stumbled across the notion of ‘Juju’ on a number of occasions whilst investigating cases of human trafficking. My limited knowledge of ‘Juju’ basically consisted of an understanding that it was a method used by Nigerian human traffickers to manipulate and instill fear into their victims… 

Marinda*, a trafficking victim, was an educated adult female who came from a middle-class family. After Marinda’s* rescue I obtained her statement in which she recounted a “supernatural” and “evil” experience involving one of her Nigerian captors. 

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Ghana: 3 Picked Up Over ‘Ritual Murder’ Of 8-year Old

The Dansoman Police have arrested two security men at the Ebenezer Secondary School in connection with the murder of an eight-year old boy last Sunday. A pastor has also been invited for questioning on the matter.

On Tuesday, residents of Atomic Down found the decapitated body of Nana Yaw Buabeng at the Ebenezer school’s compound in what is suspected to be a case of ritual murder – head and genitals had been cut-off.

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Nigeria: Cursed Culture? Spiritual vs Superstitious

It is rare to meet an African atheist. Africans generally believe in something. A lot of Nigerians I know are “Christians”. I would included myself in that number, but I am a little unusual in that I don’t attend a church pastored by a megalomaniac, who struts up and down a stage shouting and sweating in front of a congregation who sway, swoon, and ultimately empty out their pockets to fund the profligate lifestyle of the said megalomaniac. In other words I don’t attend the ever popular charismatic church.

In the end I’ve concluded that the reason there is so much delusion in African churches, is that African people are just too superstitious… In many parts of Africa herbal doctors, or “witch doctors” still operate and are heavily relied upon. I’m almost convinced that many African pastors are nothing more than “Christianized” witch doctors.

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Papua New Guinea: ‘Wickedness – Woman Accused of Witchcraft Burnt Alive’

A woman accused of witchcraft has been burned alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in Papua New Guinea. The brutal slaying of 20-year-old mother-of-one Kepari Leniata on Wednesday has been condemned by the nation’s prime minister, police and diplomatic observers.

She was stripped naked by several assailants, tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in petrol, then set alight on a pile of car tyres and rubbish… Some of the hundreds of bystanders took photographs and grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country’s biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier.

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