The government of India will make witchcraft illegal in the very near future; this plan is being pushed forward in a hope to cease all witch hunting and witchcraft practices. According to a report in the Examiner.com, witchcraft is being practiced in a variety of locations throughout India including Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand.
The United Nations is very concerned over the number of women being murdered that are presently accused of practicing witchcraft. Statistics reveal that from 1987 to 1993, a fourteen year period, more than 2500 women were accused of witchcraft and killed. The women, after being accused of witchcraft are put on display in front of the entire village and stripped naked, then beaten to death.
Just last month three men wearing masks broke into one villager’s home and killed a man and a woman after accusing them of witchcraft and their children were left orphans. According to reports, financial instability in certain regions in India are the cause of the witchcraft uprising and that people are getting involved in witchcraft because of the poor financial conditions.
This is another clear case where fear overrides sensibilities in every regard. It seems to me that some people are turning to witchcraft because they feel hopeless about their situations and are seeking a method of changing their lives for the better. Again, misunderstandings and misconceptions about witchcraft are fueling the fires of ignorance and it is leading to unnecessary deaths. It is a shame that even today there are people in the world that are either being accused of witchcraft and are innocent of the accusation, or there are people that are actually practicing the craft and being persecuted for it. It seems that in some parts of the world, it is deadly to be a witch or to even be considered one.
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