Boy sacrificed for hidden treasure in India

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Friday, January 27, 2012

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Superstitious people strike again. This time, idiots from Andhra Pradesh state sacrificed a boy in hopes of finding a treasure in a fort.  

Nirmal Town Fort, where the sacrifice was performed by eight people

The human sacrifice was offered as part of a plan to bribe the gods into revealing a hidden treasure.

The boy was sacrificed for the believed-to-be hidden treasure in the fort on Amavasya (new moon night) on the intervening night of Jan 24-25. He was buried in the same area and the police exhumed the body Thursday. The body showed signs of rituals having been performed, with turmeric powder, vermilion and other puja related objects found on the victim’s body.



 

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Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh, India where the incident took place

 

Teenage girls running naked to cure their fertility problems

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

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From the Hindu, (April 2002)

Vijayawada April 24. Kokuntla village is just 35 km from the much hyped Hitech City but bizarre things like teenaged girls running naked, or an entire village population of 3,000 going into mass hiccups happen here.

A fortnight ago about 20 young girls, almost all of them in their teens, ran naked in the village. The reason, the local self-styled witch doctor suggested such a "propitious'' act as most of the women were suffering from some gynaec problem or the other. And after performing such strange rituals, the villagers again shells out Rs. 2,000-3,000 each to the witch doctor as fee.

Team of doctors investigate the superstition

Mr. Vijayam was among the eight members from Vijayawada's Atheist Centre who went round over a dozen villages of Ranga Reddy district on April 20-21 at the invitation of the District Superintendent of Police, Ramachandra Raju. The team was led by G. Samaram, a prominent physician here.

``The 20 young girls ran around the village naked were examined by the team and it was found that many of them were suffering from anaemia or other gynaecological problems,'' said Mr. Vijayam.

According to another team member, some of the women have illicit affairs. But their husbands choose to overlook the same under the notion that nothing can be done as the women are under the spell of "Bhanamathi''

More stupidity

At Anantagiripally in Vikarabad, two men and a woman were tied upside down to trees and made to pull out each other's teeth on the suspicion that they were performing black magic.These are not isolated cases as such incidents are common in most villages in the districts besides the adjoining districts of Medak, Nizamabad and Nalgonda.

Lack of proper medical/physchological care

Says head of the delegation, Dr. Samaram, "Some of the villagers have stomachache, schizophrenia or joint pains, but in the absence of medical facilities the villagers approach the witch doctors who mislead them.

Abject poverty, illiteracy, lack of basic medical facilities are the main reasons for these superstitions among the villagers, Mr. Vijayam added

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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/04/25/stories/2002042502920400.htm

Five children 'sacrificed' by childless couple

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From NDTV,

Five children have been killed in Hingoli in Maharashtra by a childless couple on the advice of a tantrik who said the woman would conceive if 11 boys were sacrificed in the village.

Police say villager Vandana Mokle had had no children after 12 years of marriage. So Vandana, her husband and her in-laws went about poisoning village kids.

"The two accused are Kundlik and Kalavati Mokle. Their son Vitthal was married. His wife Vandana wasn't able to conceive. So, they went to a tantrik who told them they would need to kill 11 boys," said M A Raif, Inspector, Digras Police Station.
Between December 13 and March 4, five boys aged between two and four years were poisoned.
The villagers had already become suspicious and the police was informed.

"Initially we thought the deaths were caused by snake bites. But so many children were dying. We realised a snake won't target only children," said Ramesh Dalvi, father of victim.

When the police began questioning villagers, the Mokles were conspicuous by their absence.

That gave the police an immediate lead and on Wednesday the Mokles were arrested.
But by then innocent lives had already been lost at the altar of ignorance, poverty and superstition.

Source:http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/5-young-children-sacrificed-by-couple-17940.php

Indian witchdoctor beheads 5 year old girl

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Friday, July 31, 2009

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Another example of religious fanatics from India,

A rural Indian witchdoctor beheaded a five-year-old girl as part of a bizarre ritual to help a villager produce healthy male heirs, police have said.

Vandana Kumari was murdered on Tuesday (local time) in Lakhimpur Kheri district, 200 kilometres from the Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow, police officer Ravi Srivastava said Thursday.
Occult practitioner Mewalal Chauhan recommended the "human sacrifice" when the child's neighbour Ram Niwas came to him for help, Mr Srivastava said.
"Ram Niwas had sons but none of them survived infancy. His brother too was ailing. The 'tantrik' Chauhan said a human sacrifice was necessary to get rid of these problems," he said.
The witchdoctor, his male assistant and Niwas lured the little girl into a field where Chauhan cut off her head after prayers and rituals, the police officer said.
Police said they recovered the child's headless body after her mother reported her missing, and had detained the three men.
Belief in black magic is common among superstitious rural Indians.
Many families in India value male heirs for their breadwinning potential, and sons are needed to light their parents' funeral pyres under Hindu rites.
- AFP

Naked girls plow fields for rain

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Yet another stupid Indian practice.

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their
unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the
weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on
Thursday.
Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields
and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly
village women helped the girls drag the plows.

"They (villagers) believe
their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would
ensure bumper crops by sending rains," Upendra Kumar, a village council
official, said from Bihar's remote Banke Bazaar town.

"This is the most
trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this
practice until it rains very heavily."

India this year suffered its
worst start to the vital monsoon rains in eight decades, causing drought in some
states.

(Writing by Bappa Majumdar Editing by Sugita Katyal)

Hindu ritual of jumping into thorns

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

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Hindus believe that their gods bring happiness and prosperity to them if they suffer in the name of god.
Walking on a fire pit is a very usual ritual at festivals.
But,jumping into a mass of thorns is something wierd.