A cursed coconut has been seized by police near a polling station in the Maldives igniting fears a black witch is trying to rig the country’s upcoming election with a voodoo spell. Read more here.
Two persons were arrested and two others were detained here after alert locals foiled their alleged attempt to perform human sacrifices, for curing an ailing member of their family, police said today. Read more here.
TWO sisters, Maryam Ashiru, 60 and Asiya Ashiru, 57 years old were unjudicially killed by an angry mob at Kila village of Gwaram Local Government Area in Jigawa State for alleged witchcraft. Read more here.
COLOMBO, September 5, 2013 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man died Thursday after a bizarre and botched ritual to drive out what he thought were evil spirits from a house outside the capital, police said. Read more here.
Witch doctors regularly dump animal sacrifices into the reservoir meant to quench the thirst, clean the dishes and wash the clothes of 750,000 Venezuelans, reported Bloomberg. As a result, citizens of one of the most dangerous, crime-ridden cities in the world, Caracas, Venezuela, can’t even take a drink of water from the tap safely.
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Police in the northern region district of Chitipa have arrested a 29 year old woman and a 14 year old boy for an aborted ritual killing of a five year old child. Read more here.
Seven of the nine persons who allegedly killed a 50-year-old woman and raped her daughter in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday night have been have been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. Read more here.
The pastor tied two ‘witch’ teenagers for three days during the ‘deliverance’. Read more here.
Kokrajhar:Just a day after eminent rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead in Pune last month, a killing that ironically forced the Maharashtra government to pass the long-pending anti-superstition ordinance, two people were killed in a remote village in Assam’s Kokrajhar district, allegedly by villagers who suspected them of practicing witchcraft. Read more here.
The vulture population is threatened because of traditional muti beliefs that its head gives a person powers, The Times reported on Tuesday.Read more here.
