Paraguayan group burns woman at stake for witchcraft

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An indigenous woman was burned alive at the stake in Paraguay after being accused of witchcraft and a 14-year-old girl only barely escaped a similar fate after being rescued by investigators from a remote village in the South American nation, a local prosecutor confirmed Wednesday.

Prosecutor Fany Aguilera said that members of the Mbya Guarani ethnic group tied 45-year-old Adolfina Ocampos to a wooden pole and shot arrows at her before they burned her alive. Ocampos was sentenced to death last week by the community's chief in Tahehyi, a village some 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of the capital, Asuncion. The date of the killing was unclear.

Aguilera has charged nine men in the village with first-degree murder, and they have already acknowledged killing the woman.

 

A report by the UN Refugee Agency estimates that thousands of people worldwide are accused of being witches every year. The UN says they are often abused, cast out of their families and communities and sometimes killed.

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Primitive superstition (sorry, redundant) claims another victim.

 

Witches aren't real, folks. Well, some people might call themselves witches, but I am pretty confident that can't wilt your crops or make you impotent.