Chuck sends this tidbit along. Think about this the next time Susie and Tim and Ed and the Baldwins and the Sheens and Whatsisname start bitching about "witch hunts"...
Kolkata, April 20
A tribal man in West Bengal beheaded a woman after dubbing her a witch and then calmly walked into a police station carrying her severed head. The incident occurred Friday evening at Sajnedighi village in Malda district.
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Police said Sunil Kisku's children had been suffering from various ailments for months. One of his sons died sometime back. After the village quack failed to cure his children, Kisku was advised by some friends to see a witch doctor who promised to help for a fee of Rs 1,200. The poor man arranged for the money and an elaborate ritual was conducted. At the end of it, the witch doctor pronounced that Kisku's worries were because of a woman relative who had cast an evil spell on his children. The witch doctor warned that he would lose his family if she were not killed. Police said an enraged Kisku then raided the house of the 50-year-old woman, Turki Kisku, and strangled her in front of her son. He then chopped off her head.
Sunil then surrendered at a police station and confessed to the crime.
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The police have also arrested another man on suspicion of being Kisku's accomplice.
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