Shit like this just makes skeptics smug

[thebitterguy]

Sweet, Sweet superstition.

Community values in action, you might say.

A family on a tea plantation was tried for witchcraft and beheaded when they were found guilty. Apparently, 200 people in this province have been killed in the past five years for "for allegedly practicing witchcraft."

Swell.

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[pyat.livejournal.com]

They then marched to a police station with the heads...

Superstitious AND dumb.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

I read this today too, on BBC's news page; six persons have been arrested in the latest example of vigelante justice.

Mind you, I know persons (and patients of mine) in Hamilton who actively believe in such things as the Evil Eye (malocchio) and have employed so-called witches and faith healers in attempts to alleviate such afflictions.

Luckily the folk-cures for this superstitious malady does not involve decapitation.

::B::

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

Now, now. We have to respect their cultural differences, otherwise we're being ethnocentric.

Sorry for leaving slimy sarcasm on your floor; I'll mop it up.

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

We all know that punishing murder is much less important than preserving and respecting the cultural practices of minorities.




I'll let somebody else mop up after me.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

chanting slogans denouncing witchcraft and black magic.

What, they didn't have time to make placards too?

[thebitterguy]

Pre-printed placards require a higher level of political backing. This was a grassroots community effort.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Is this particularly weird in non-post-renaissance cultures, though? : P

[thebitterguy]

That's the thing; their tech level is up there, so we automatically assume they must have the same social axiom as we do. Common mistake.