ActionAid-Ghana and Songtaba, both non-governmental organizations, have appealed to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to work with the Department of Social Welfare to enroll all alleged witches onto the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme to ensure their sustainable livelihood. Read more here.
Two self-proclaimed Satanists killed a man they found sleeping in a cemetery and carved a swastika into his head to pass the blame onto neo-Nazis, the Investigative Committee said Wednesday in a statement announcing the completion of the investigation into the May 2012 incident. Read more here.
The highly contested issue of whether striking Marikana mine workers underwent muti rituals took a twist when police lawyers asked a witness to subject himself to a medical test. Read more here.
RANCHI: A case of witch hunting came to light on Monday morning in Simdega when the accused walked up to Tethaitangar police station to surrender after committing the crime. Read more here.
A tribal woman and her daughter were hacked to death in a Tripura village after they were branded sorceresses, police said today. Read more here.
In remote parts of India, illness, a poor harvest or just plain bad luck can sometimes mean only one thing: a curse in the family. Sumitra Padmanabhan, the chairman of SRAI, explains the development of a typical witch-hunt in this short documentary. See more here.
While westerners may think of witch hunts as long gone practices now found only in history books, witch hunts are still very much a part of life in remote areas of India. In conservative and tribal areas of the country, hundreds of women are still killed and tortured for the crime of witchcraft, but there is a growing movement in India to spread awareness and bring an end to this cruel tradition. Read more here.
Health officials in Mwanza Region have warned against increasing tendency to associate research work in the Lake Zone with mythical beliefs and wicked notions like wrongly associating National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) with freemasonry. Read more here.
Getting help from the spirits, jinns and devils and scientific and practical communication with them are said to be magic in the etymological and jurisprudential technical terms. Read more here.
