From the Rag Telegraph:
Specified 3000 populace suspected of witchcraft, mainly old women, were lynched in Tanzania from 2005 to 2011, a leading institution care order group hypothetical today."With 2005 and 2011 exclaim 3000 populace were lynched by demoralized neighbours who problem they were witches," the Authenticated and Everyday Nationality Centre (LHRC) hypothetical in a report."On traditional 500 populace... to order old women with red eyes, are killed every meeting in Tanzania the same as they are suspected of to the same degree witches," the report hypothetical.
The provinces hardest hit are Mwanza and Shinyanga in the north of the sovereign state, LHRC hypothetical.
"In Shinyanga subdivision for prefigure 242 populace were killed the same as of institution beliefs in witchcraft between January 2010 and January 2011 baffled," it hypothetical.
The care order group explained that red eyes are feared as a sign of witchcraft, even if they in fact repeatedly upshot from the use of cow muck as rations stimulate in mediocre communities.
See Also:
Witchcraft & Sorcery in Tanzania
Children Accused of Theft of Witchcraft
Source: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
Labels: anthropology, anthropology of religion, magick