In a suspected case of child sacrifice, the body of a 10-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in the premises of a temple in Perumal Koil Karadu in Salem district on Saturday. The villagers, who found the body, told police that they suspected the girl might have been murdered by a person or a group who had come to the village searching for a hidden treasure some days ago.
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A Bulawayo family woke up to find scary visitors at its gates yesterday – a black mamba and a dead python tied with a black cloth. The live cobra was wrapped in a black cloth and placed in a home-made winnowing basket filed with rapoko, torching a witchcraft scare across Lobengula suburb.
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A 69 year old lady was bashed by her grandchildren after being accused of bewitching them.
Piniel Mandinyenya (27) and Primrose Mandinyenya (20) of Chirove village under Chief Shumba appeared in court accused of assaulting their grandmother Ester Mandinyenya (67) of the same village whom they said was a witch.
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Witch purification is a ritual of confirming and cleansing an alleged witch. Alleged witches in Ghana’s Northern region are subjected to this process before they are allowed to settle in six of the seven witch camps. The ritual is performed by the Tindana. The Tindana are the earth priests or priestesses who oversee the ‘old ladies area’- as the witch camps are called in Dagbani language.
Traditionally, witchcraft is a capital offence. An alleged witch is killed by a lynch mob. The ‘official’ practice of witch killing stopped following the introduction of witch cleansing ritual and the establishment of witch camps.
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Two teenage boys were hoping to make a deal with the devil when they sexually assaulted and killed a 15-year-old suburban Houston girl in a satanic ritual, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Seventeen-year-old Jose E. Reyes and a 16-year-old boy are accused of disfiguring the girl’s body, including carving an upside down crucifix on her stomach.
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Witch burning, torture and sorcery are still common, where primitive beliefs and a local form of voodoo endure amid a gold boom, in a place where tribesman might have mobile phones, but still believe in black magic, called ‘sanguma’
According to a report by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, progress in New Guinea has actually brought an explosion in witch hunts, as a sinister culture has taken hold among dirt poor villagers living amid a resources plunder by mining companies.
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Luduru Silas Aligo was sent by his family to Uganda to receive an education, but while he was there, he became a member of a gang.
His fellow gang members took him to the Democratic Republic of Congo to be introduced to witchcraft, which they said would aid him in carrying out his criminal activities. “While there, I was taken into the underworld to get special powers for killing people,” he said.
He said his new spiritual powers enabled him to open any lock and putting him in prison was a waste of time because he could open any lock and walk away.
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An elderly woman’s body was exhumed in Belize last week and her grandson suspects someone might be selling her bones for black magic.
Felipa Sanchez died 20 years ago at the age of 87, and her remains were stolen Tuesday from her Orange Walk District tomb. A nearby resident reported hearing a loud bang around 3 a.m.
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The opposition Congress today staged a walkout from the Chhattisgarh Assembly over abduction of a minor boy in Bemetera district, allegedly by workers of a construction firm for the purpose of “sacrifice”.
Soon after the proceedings of the day began, senior Congress member Bhupesh Baghel raised the issue seeking a discussion on it through an adjournment motion. Baghel said the workers of Malamohan Construction company, engaged in the construction of anicut (a dam made in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation) on Dotu river near Thankhamariya in the district, “kidnapped” Ankush Nirmalkar (8) yesterday morning for the purpose of “sacrificing” him. However, the boy escaped from his captors, he added.
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