REVENGE FOR SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT.
A uoßiuisLK case of murder for supposed witchcraft is reported from the Deecan. At a village in Chennar, Jalnho, certain shepherds were suspected by the villagers, and these suspicions were accentuated in consequence of a severe epidemic of cholera. Twoof thesuspected men were seized, solemnly tried and condemned for witchcraft by the village commission, and sentenced to be tortured to death. There, in the presence of all the villagers ( heir teeth were extracted with pincers, and their heads were shaved. Subsequently they were buried up to their necks, wood was piled round their heads, a fire was kindled, and the skulls were roasted into powder. Some 30 persons have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. A similar case was recently tried at Bombay. The accused imputed the death of his father and mother, and the illness of certain members of his family, to the arts of an old woman, and beat her to death with a thick, heavy stick. These cases are common, but arc rarely brought to the notice of the British authorities.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2650, 6 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)
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181REVENGE FOR SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2650, 6 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)
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