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Woman branded witch, beheaded

Woman branded witch, beheaded

Indo-Asian News Service
Ranchi, April 21, 2008

A man in Jharkhand beheaded a woman he thought was a witch and surrendered to the police after walking with the severed head for five kilometres, police said on Monday.

Jairam Hansda, 37, killed Renti Hansda, 40, on Sunday in Tirildih village of Jamshedpur district, around 190 km from here. He then picked up her head and walked to the Mousabini police station.

Jairam told the police that the dead woman was into black magic, which he claimed killed his father and brother.

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Tags: persecution, witch-murder

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Here he goes and performs this tremendous service to the non-witch community; essentially saving the entire village from further death and harm and they go and arrest him for it... I am so glad that thoughts, ideas, and idealogies have been evolving throughout the centuries.

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I can't help but get the visual of this guy walking around with this woman's head, advising everyone that he saved them from the 'evil witch'. Reality is stranger than fiction.

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Sadly me either; I have the morbid sense of humor that if I lived in that village that I would make an announcement to all of the other villagers that handling a witches head makes the spirit of the witch enter that person.

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I find it amazing how someone can claim another to be a witch without factual proof. ( How would he know? Is he one himself, Did he participate in the rituals? ) I find it abhorring that a person can outright take a life of someone who is accused of being a witch. Furthermore, this type of behavior instigates cults into taking action of like kind against us and reintroducing the inquisition all over again.

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