Man kills two month old son fearing bad luck

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Friday, January 27, 2012

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In yet another superstitious atrocity, a man from Kerala killed his own son after an astrologer predicted that the son would bring bad luck since he was bron with two teeth.

Madhu, a 27-year-old fisherman from Punnapra , allegedly thrashed the baby on the floor two days ago after an astrologer told him that the child born with two teeth was a bad omen for him, police said.

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Alappuzha district, Kerala where the incident took place\



Boy sacrificed for hidden treasure in India

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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

 

Superstitious sons kill mother by trying to exorcise her by beating her with rods

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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In a 2 year old news  dug up from CNN-IBN India, three sons murder their mother trying to exorcise her.And then tried to sacrifice their sister-in-law to bring her back from death. Its sad to mention that one of the killer is MBA holder,one is am Engineering student.Its realy sad that even educated people are criminally superstitious.

From CNN-IBN,

New Delhi: Apr 8, 2008: It is a bizarre tale from the Capital's suburb Ghaziabad. Three boys beat their 55-year-old mother to death, believing she had been possessed by a spirit. The three boys — an engineering student, a MBA degree holder and a student of Class XII — beat up the woman with rods. They then tried to sacrifice their sister-in-law to bring their dead mother back to life.
All three — aged between 18-24 years — have been arrested.
The incident happened at Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad on Saturday night. Rohit, Ashish and Navneet even beat up their sister, her husband and other relatives who tried to intervene.
The incident happened at Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad on Saturday night. Rohit, Ashish and Navneet even beat up their sister, her husband and other relatives who tried to intervene.
Says their sister-in-law, Preeti Singh, "These people believed that their mother was possessed by a spirit. We don't believe in these things, but then they started saying that a human sacrifice was needed and then they got after me, that I was the one to be sacrificed."

News video of the incident from CNN-IBN

Parents sacrifice 4-yr-old girl to become rich

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Friday, August 20, 2010

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Exorcism rituals

Parents sacrifice 4-yr-old girl to become rich

Sanjay Pandey, Lucknow, Aug 18, DHNS:

Lust for wealth drove a poverty- stricken couple to sacrifice their own four-year-old daughter at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s backward Sitapur district, about 90 km from here.

The couple, identified as Srikrishna and Ramdevi, were told by a “tantrik” (exorcist)that they would become rich if they sacrificed their daughter, according to police sources here.

Acting on the advice of a “tantrik”, a “havana kund”(a pit in which the fire is lit and yajna is performed), was prepared in the courtyard of the couple for the rituals late on Monday night.

The parents then put their daughter Kanni into the pit amid chanting of “mantra” and lit the fire. The girl, who was also mercillessely beaten, was half buried in the pit.

The parents had stuffed a piece of cloth in the mouth of the little girl so that her cries could not be heard by any one in the village, sources said.

The badly burnt body of the girl was later buried on the same spot by digging a deep pit, sources said. The grandmother of the girl was also present during the rituals, sources said.

The ghastly incident came to light on Tuesday when neighbours found vermillion, flowers, incense sticks and other items used in the rituals and suspected that some “exorcism rituals” might have been performed there.

As the crowds of villagers swelled before Srikrishna’s house, the couple, sensing trouble, and others fled from there through the back door.

The villagers informed the police, which dug the area and brought out the badly burnt body of Kanni. “The body had injury marks on the head and neck, which shows that she must have been beaten for offering resistance,” according to the police.

A case had been registered by the police and a massive manhunt had been launched to nab the culprits, who have been absconding.

Barely a couple of days back a nine- year-old girl was buried alive by her own uncle in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district to please the goddess so that he could become rich.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/89585/parents-sacrifice-4-yr-old.html

Minor girl buried alive (sacrificed) by her uncle in Uttar Pradesh

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Stupidness of these people in the name of sacrifices to god is atrocious.

Updated on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 21:31

Lucknow: In a shocking incident, an eight-year-old girl was today buried alive in Uttar Pradesh by her uncle who believed that sacrificing the minor would solve all his problems, a senior police officer said here.

Munau was buried alive by her uncle Shiv Kumar Yadav in Bangrahan village in Tarabganj area of Gondaa district this morning, Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Brij Lal told reporters.

Shiv Kumar believed that sacrificing a minor girl will solve all his problems and miseries, he said.
Shiv Kumar has been arrested and the body has been sent for post mortem, the ADG said.
PTI

http://www.zeenews.com/news647362.html

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

Village 'witches' beaten in India

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state.

Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.

The incident occurred on Sunday in a remote village in Deoghar district.

Correspondents say the abuse of women who are branded as witches is common, but rare footage of the incident has caused outrage across India.

Police went to Pattharghatia village after being informed about the incident by a group of villagers.

Video footage of the above mentioned incident.



Yet another religious atrocity in India.
Thats today's news.
There's more, similar incidents have occured in the past.



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