Credit to Author: Manvir Singh| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:08:11 +0000
An international group of advocates are urging the U.N. to do something about the ostracization and violence.
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Credit to Author: Cameron Kunzelman| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:20:27 +0000
Inspired by Paraguayan folklore, it’s a game about the intersection of community and consequences.
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It would have been an ordinary full moon last Tuesday had it not been for crowds that gathered outside their homes here to watch the spectacle that believers in the supernatural took as a cue to practice witchcraft or pray to the heavens.
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A spate of brutal witch-hunts has plunged parts of Papua New Guinea’s highlands into a state of terror, as fearful tribes blame dark forces for their rapidly changing world. In one particularly horrifying incident, an elderly woman writhes and pleads hysterically as she is mercilessly beaten, raped and tortured on a hut floor, before her […]
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Armed with coffin nails, effigies, and dirt from a graveyard, they’ll be casting a spell “all about causing suffering”—just in time for Halloween!
In a bizarre case involving alleged witchcraft, a local shaman and a family dispute, police rescued a 28-year-old woman who had been held captive in a hole for 15 years in Central Sulawesi last Sunday.
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