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| Guyana Woman Accused As Vampire Lynched |
| 2007-05-01 |
| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - A crowd of Guyanese villagers lynched an elderly woman they accused of being an evil spirit who drinks the blood of human babies, police said Monday. Authorities in the South American country said the woman raised suspicions with unusual behavior and was set upon by villagers who apparently believed she was an "Old Higue"—the equivalent of a vampire in the local Obeah religion that blends folk magic and African rituals. The woman, who has not been identified, was beaten to death and her remains were found on Saturday in a village 15 miles east of Georgetown, police said. Police have arrested three people and are questioning others, Superintendent Balram Persaud said. "We are still investigating," he said. Some expressed surprise at the persistence of belief in Higues, a creature said to take the shape of an old woman who can shrink herself to enter victims' homes through a keyhole. |
| Posted by:Cleash Omereter2552 |
| #5 Not all lycanthropes are killed by fire or silver bullets either. Shhhhhhh. |
| Posted by: Were-Jackal 2007-05-01 22:04 |
| #4 Hehehe...not all vampires are killed in the good ole' tradition of Hollywood horror movies or European legend. The Higue, it seems, can walk in daylight, turn itself into a ball of fire to fly, can shed its skin, and shrink itself down to enter houses at night. In order to catch it, you throw uncooked rice on the floor. As the Higue enters the house, without its skin, it steps and the rice and must then count each and every grain by picking them up. If any of the grains fall onto the floor again, it has to start counting all over again. Thus, you can catch the thing counting rice grains in the house in the morning. You kill it by beating it to death with coconut straw brooms (it has no skin so this reportedly burns). Not all lycanthropes are killed by fire or silver bullets either. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-05-01 16:50 |
| #3 I'm sure it will cut down on the local incidents of dead babies being found with punctures in their necks. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-05-01 15:00 |
| #2 The undead never sleep. I'll be back. To extract my revenge! |
| Posted by: Old Higue 2007-05-01 12:34 |
| #1 The villagers didn't watch enough horror movies. You can't beat a vampire to death. The correct ways to kill them are to drive a piece of wood through their heart, expose them to sunlight, holy water, garlic and silver bullets. She must have been a werewolf. |
| Posted by: usmc6743 2007-05-01 12:22 |