| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/05/01, 8:52 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Earlier this week, police charged two people from Mount Hagen, in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea, [url=http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-woman-burned-alive-papua-new-guinea-20130218,0,6057678.story]with the murder of Kepari Leniata[/url], a 20-year-old woman and mother. Accused of bewitching a six-year old boy who had recently died in hospital, Leniata was stripped, tortured with a hot iron rod, doused in
petrol, and burned on a pile of rubbish and car tyres.
Anyone with a reasonable knowledge of history will quickly think of the legalised witch killings of Europe and North America as comparisons. These offer a sobering broader perspective. In Germany, Switzerland, Britain and New England, perhaps 50,000 alleged witches were tortured and killed by the most educated and powerful men
in society. By definition, most of their supposed crimes were sheer
impossibilities. But the forgotten history of witch attacks is perhaps
more surprising still.
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