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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Indonesian 'Robbed Graves for Black-Magic Flying Spell'
2013-12-17
[An Nahar] An Indonesian man has admitted stealing human remains from graves to use in black-magic spells he believed would give him the power of flight and invisibility, police said Monday.
Since the cops found him and he didn't fly away, I'm guessing it didn't work?
Police placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Resi Rokhis Suhana, 27, in the south of the main island of Java on Sunday, following reports that bones were stolen from graves, including those of twin babies.
If the babies weren't invisible, and they couldn't fly, why would robbing their graves make the robber invisible and a flyer?
He was incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
in a banana plantation in Cilacap district in possession of bones, ripped white shrouds of the type used in Moslem burials, women's underwear and a sickle, police said.
Ahah. He was a jihadist, then?
"In preliminary questioning, he admitted robbing the graves to perfect a magical power called 'Ultimate Magical Knight'," said local police chief Andry Triaspoetra.
"That's right! I dunnit! And now you can't see me, can you? Ha-hah!"
"I still see you. Stick 'em up!"

Following his arrest, Suhana was admitted to hospital to evaluate his mental health.
"See here? Look at the quality of this nice jacket! Here, try it on..."
"The arms look a little long."

Some still believe in black magic in Moslem-majority Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands inhabited by a kaleidoscope of different peoples.
... some of whom are invisible...
In 2003, a man was arrested for eating the flesh of a freshly buried old woman in what he believed was part of a ritual to make him invincible.
It was easier to get to a dead old lady and eat part of her than it was to get to somebody who was invincible and eat part of him. Being a good Moslem he could only eat a woman after she was dead.
The justice ministry earlier this year proposed banning "black magic" that causes death or suffering, an offence which would carry a five-year prison sentence.
Good idea.
Posted by:Fred

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