Posted on 08/31/2015 2:42:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Women are often killed for allegedly practicing witchcraft
Earlier this month, a group of local youth in the Indian village of Kajiya Maraytoli in the eastern state of Jharkhand dragged 53-year-old Etwaria Kholkho out of her home and accused her of being a witch.
They demanded she identify the other witches in the village, the Indian Express newspaper reported, following which she named her mother Ratiya Kholkho and three others — 55-year-old Madni Kholkho and 40-year-old Tetri Kholkho (both unrelated to the first two women) as well as Jasinta Toppo, also 40.
The five women were then brought together and publicly beaten to death by a mob of around 50 people with sticks, bricks and stones. The Aug. 7 lynching followed a meeting of village residents to discuss the recent ill health of several villagers and their animals, triggered by the death of a 17-year-old boy a few days earlier that a “sorcerer” from a neighboring village had allegedly blamed on witchcraft.
The killing came two weeks after a 63-year-old woman in the northeastern Indian state of Assam was beheaded in broad daylight after being accused of bringing bad luck to the village through witchcraft.
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Is it to late to send Hilary there?
Beat me to it!!!
How do we know she’s a witch?
Well we did do the nose.
And the hat.
She turned me into a newt!
A newt?
SPLC here in the US is currently one of the best witch hunters. Maybe they should get a grant to teach others how to do it..and how to do witch hunting for the government itself.
I got better.
Could throw here into a body of water and see if floats.....
Of course that would be water pollution.......
What about snipe? Can we still hunt snipe?
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