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  • In 2013, Jharkland Had The Highest Rate Of Witchcraft-related Murders In India on Random Other Places Besides Salem, That Killed People For Being 'Witches'

    (#13) In 2013, Jharkland Had The Highest Rate Of Witchcraft-related Murders In India

    Fifty-four women were accused of witchcraft and killed in 2013, giving Jharkland the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of witchcraft-related murders in India. As a social welfare official told The Washington Post: “often a woman is branded a witch so you can throw her out of the village and grab her land… sometimes it is used to punish women who question social norms.” In one of those murders, a 50-year-old woman and her daughter were hacked to death for “allegedly practicing witchcraft.” The mother died quickly, but the daughter was stabbed several times until she died. As of 2013, “no national law exists that addresses witchcraft killings.”

  • Over 3,000 People Were Lynched In Tanzania For Witchcraft... In Six Years on Random Other Places Besides Salem, That Killed People For Being 'Witches'

    (#9) Over 3,000 People Were Lynched In Tanzania For Witchcraft... In Six Years

    From 2005 to 2011, over 3,000 people were lynched in Tanzania for being witches. That’s more than 500 a year. Turns out that many older women were accused of being witches on account of having “red eyes,” which happens when you’re so poor you have to burn cow dung for heat instead of wood. Often, these women are murdered following the death of a relative as “payback.” The families “visit soothsayers to determine the cause of death and are often told that witchcraft is responsible.” Of course. According to a member of an organization that's trying to protect the rights of the local elderly: "You cannot separate witchcraft beliefs from the issue of development. The more developed people are, the less they believe in such things." 

  • In Papua New Guinea, Women Suspected Of Witchcraft Are Still Burned Alive on Random Other Places Besides Salem, That Killed People For Being 'Witches'

    (#3) In Papua New Guinea, Women Suspected Of Witchcraft Are Still Burned Alive

    When executing a suspected “witch,” people always go over the top. It’s never “we shot the witch in the head”; it's always something like this story of a rural Papua New Guinea woman who was “bound and gagged, tied to a log, and set ablaze on a pile of tires.” The explanation given for many of the executions of these “witches” is that they’re “scapegoats for someone’s unexplained death,” because obviously, the only way to deal with your grief is to light someone on fire atop a bunch of tires. This is shockingly common in Papua New Guinea; over fifty people were killed in 2007 alone for “sorcery.” Many regions of the country still live according to traditional beliefs, which is how some citizens come to blame witches for the AIDS-related deaths of 6.7 million people. 

  • Congolese Men Get To The Bottom Of A Witch-Fueled Penis-Stealing Epidemic on Random Other Places Besides Salem, That Killed People For Being 'Witches'

    (#14) Congolese Men Get To The Bottom Of A Witch-Fueled Penis-Stealing Epidemic

    In 2008, thirteen “sorcerers” were arrested on accusations of "using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Feel free to take a moment and read that again. Fourteen “victims” were detained by police, which means that two guys accused the same “witch” of stealing and/or shrinking their penises. Claims ranged from making their penises disappear outright to shrinking beyond repair. As ever, radio call-in shows were helpful, as “listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.” This would be much funnier if lynchings hadn’t been attempted in the wake of the accusations. While the police did arrest the accused sorcerers, it was only to protect them from violence, not to actually prosecute them for an imaginary crime.

  • Evangelical Pastors Accused 15,000 Children Of Witchcraft In Nigeria In Just Nine Years on Random Other Places Besides Salem, That Killed People For Being 'Witches'

    (#11) Evangelical Pastors Accused 15,000 Children Of Witchcraft In Nigeria In Just Nine Years

    After a local pastor accused his son of being a witch in 2009, a Nigerian boy’s father “tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes." Other children accused of witchcraft were set on fire. Unfortunately, this is all too common, as over 1,000 children were murdered for perceived "witchcraft" between 2000 and 2009 in Nigeria alone. During that same time period, over 15,000 children in two of Nigeria's 36 states were accused of being witches. Some blame these witch hunts the rise of evangelical Christianity in the country.

  • Thumb of Saudi Arabia Has A Long History Of Executing People For 'Sorcery' video

    (#1) Saudi Arabia Has A Long History Of Executing People For 'Sorcery'

    The execution of Amina bint Abdel Halim Nassar happened in the far off, medieval time of… December, 2011. She was convicted after authorities found “books on sorcery… talismans and glass bottles filled with liquids supposedly used for the purposes of magic.” As far as reasons to find someone guilty of being a witch, that counts as “barely even trying to make up an excuse.” The execution most likely came from reports that she sold spells and bottles for around $400, or possibly because she was a woman in a puritanical monarchy. Under their law, death is the punishment for sorcery, blasphemy and witchcraft. “Sorcery” is a charge the Kingdom uses fairly willy-nilly, as TV host Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested for it in 2008.

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The witch trial was one of the ways in which European Christianity persecuted its religious heresy from the end of the Middle Ages to modern times, and the victims were mostly women. The main purpose is to maintain the power of the Pope and social stability and eradicate heresy. The most famous witch approval case in history occurred in Salem, and there are some little-known brutal murders for being "witches".

The real witch trials in history are far crueler than the plots in movies and TV series. From the Middle Ages to modern times, "witch hunts" have appeared from time to time around the world. The random tool tells 14 brutal killings for "witches" that happened in other places besides Salem.

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