Here’s a disturbing story from the BBC back a the end of October. In India, three people accused of being witches killed themselves after being publicly humiliated in their village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
According to the BBC account of the incident,
Local police told the BBC that one of the three family members, a 60-year-old woman, Kari Devi, had been the subject of attacks for a year.
Last week a group attacked her, her husband and daughter-in-law.
The two women had their hair cut off before the three were forced to eat human waste, the AFP news agency reports.
Villagers had said the three were responsible for the death a local person they had cast spells on.
On Thursday, the three all took poison and died, the police say.
Apparently such attacks are all too frequent in eastern India, with the BBC noting that in the Indian state of Jharkhand in July a mob burned to death two women accused of witchcraft.
Sources:
Three ‘witches’ kill themselves. The BBC, October 24, 2003.