Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Tortured, branded, burned alive: Inside the land where lynch mobs still hunt witches and men guard graveyards to stop sorcerers feasting on the dead

-Women damned as 'witches' burned alive by chanting mob

-Scenes out of 15th century in Papua New Guinea highlands

-Tribes blame 'witches' for deaths and torture with hot irons

-Primitive beliefs in sorcery survive amid gold mining boom

-Gravediggers guard against 'witches who come to eat corpses'

-Drug and booze fuelled witch hunts in Pacific's most dangerous region

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556469/Witch-burnings-Papua-New-Guinea.html

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