RAIPUR, India — An Indian “witch doctor” who beheaded an 11-year-old boy and offered the head as a sacrifice to a goddess to improve his fortunes has been sentenced to death, police said Tuesday. Read more here.
RUNDU – The dismembered corpse believed to belong to a 32-year-old missing villager was fished from the Kavango River yesterday. Read more here.
GWERU – A group of self-styled traditional healers, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have invaded Chief Chiwundura’s area where they are allegedly exposing “witches” and “treating” the sick for a fee. Read more here.
SOLUKHUMBU: A patient here has attacked a shaman while the latter was healing the patient in Solukhumbu district on Tuesday evening. Read more here.
BULAWAYO – In a suspected act of witchcraft, residents of Iminyela suburb in Bulawayo yesterday woke up to find a 21-year-old woman standing at her doorsteps half naked and smeared with ashes all over her body. Read more here.
It’s not uncommon to find a few skeletons in the closet of a departed leader. But, in Bozizé’s case, this was literally true: rebels entered one of his homes in the capital found two human skeletons carefully hidden underneath the house. Read more here.
According to the research of the Center for Economic and Social Development Ministry, in 2012 the citizens of the country spent about 200 million Euros on the witches and people with ESP. In a conversation with the Azerbaijani newspaper “Echo” said the chairman of the Center for Economic and Social Development Vugar Bayramov. Read more here.
NUWAKOT: Sanu Kanchi Tamang, 35, of Lachyang VDC -2, who was mercilessly beaten up by the locals for “practicing witchcraft”, about a week ago, now fears returning home. Read more here.
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says his government will repeal the country’s controversial Sorcery Act. Read more here.
The Miami Herald reported today that someone is trying to scare Anna Pierre from becoming the next mayor of North Miami. She is competing against seven other candidates to become mayor. Pierre claims someone is attempting to use Haitian voodoo. She has found chicken feathers, a voodoo doll with pins stuck in it and pennies. Pierre is Haitian so she is familiar with the practice of voodoo and blackmagic. Read more here.
