New Guinea Still Tortures Witches
I just read a story on CNN about 4 New Guinea woman being tortured and murdered for using sorcery to cause a fatal car crash. The police said that the women were tortured with hot metal rods to confess, then murdered and buried standing up in a pit, said police.
The National newspaper said on Wednesday that police had only just uncovered the grisly murders, which occurred last October near the town of Goroka in the jungle-clad highlands some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital, Port Moresby.
This is incredible that people are still murdered for witchcraft. Anyone tortured like that would confess just to get them to stop the torture.
Black magic is widespread in the South Pacific nation where most of the 5.1 million population live subsistence lives. Women suspected of being witches are often hung or burned to death. Read the full story
February 1st, 2007 at 4:09 pm
That’s unbelievable! It reminds one of the witch trials in Salem Massachusetts. Hysteria! I wonder if these guys use the Malfulcrum thingy to guide them in the torturing…..