There is a news snippet in the "Around The World" section with the heading "Kenya mob burns 15 women to death over witchcraft".
I would just like to share a few things about these 'witches/witch doctors' that people in the West might want to consider before they jump to comparisons about these current witch hunts and the witch hunts in Europe's and America's distant past.
These witch doctors 'heal' their patients with concoctions which often require human body parts. Also, they often let the 'patients' go out and acquire these 'ingredients' if they wish to be healed. Children are often casualties of the muti killings (muti means medicine). I don't know which body parts are required for which ailments/blessings/curses, but muti killings are very common here. Children are beheaded, genitals are often removed, and limps are cut of. Sometimes people are left alive after they have been mutilated.
Black people are extremely superstitious, and they are very afraid of these Sangomas and Tokoloshis, and the majority of them still put bricks under the legs of their beds, because apparently it keeps one safe from the wrath of the Tokoloshi.
So when you read news reports of witch hunts in Africa, it if often the result of police acting on a muti murder and deriving information from the killer who says the witch doctor told him to get this or that body part. Other times it's the family members of someone who falls victim to these muti killings who take the law into their own hands.
I would just like to share a few things about these 'witches/witch doctors' that people in the West might want to consider before they jump to comparisons about these current witch hunts and the witch hunts in Europe's and America's distant past.
These witch doctors 'heal' their patients with concoctions which often require human body parts. Also, they often let the 'patients' go out and acquire these 'ingredients' if they wish to be healed. Children are often casualties of the muti killings (muti means medicine). I don't know which body parts are required for which ailments/blessings/curses, but muti killings are very common here. Children are beheaded, genitals are often removed, and limps are cut of. Sometimes people are left alive after they have been mutilated.
Black people are extremely superstitious, and they are very afraid of these Sangomas and Tokoloshis, and the majority of them still put bricks under the legs of their beds, because apparently it keeps one safe from the wrath of the Tokoloshi.
So when you read news reports of witch hunts in Africa, it if often the result of police acting on a muti murder and deriving information from the killer who says the witch doctor told him to get this or that body part. Other times it's the family members of someone who falls victim to these muti killings who take the law into their own hands.
