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The Burning Times Persist...
Woman accused of witchcraft burned alive for three days in Peruvian jungle
Published September 28, 2016
Fox News Latino
Prosecutor Hugo Mauricio said members of the Shiringamazu Alto community sentenced 73-year-old Rosa Villar Jarionca to death over claims she made people sick through witchcraft. The alleged burning took place Sept. 20, but the area is so remote that word of it did not reach authorities until recently.
Mauricio said a cellphone video shot by a witness and given to prosecutors appeared to show Villar with her hands tied amid a pile of dry logs and branches. A man bathes the logs and the woman with gasoline and another man throws a lit match onto the bonfire. Villar can be heard screaming.
"The woman was burned alive because the people accused her of being a witch," Mauricio told The Associated Press.
He added that villagers burned her body on the pyre for three days to leave no traces of the killing but that authorities managed to locate some bones. He said he and 20 police officers visited the scene and returned with evidence they collected.
A record of the decision to burn Villar at the stake was written by hand in the community's log book and seen by authorities, Mauricio said. It indicated she was sentenced by a majority vote and the decision was signed by community leaders, he said.
The document said her punishment would serve "as an example to the community and other communities against this kind of damage," referring to allegations that Villar had made members of the community sick, the prosecutor said.
Mauricio, whose Puerto Bermudez district in Peru's central rainforest includes 300 indigenous communities, said accusations of witchcraft are common. In 2015, a pregnant woman in another community was accused of witchcraft and beaten so badly she aborted.
He said the remote area lacks a strong government presence, with residents having scant access to justice, health or education.
Woman accused of witchcraft burned alive for three days in Peruvian jungle
Published September 28, 2016
Fox News Latino
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Prosecutor Hugo Mauricio said members of the Shiringamazu Alto community sentenced 73-year-old Rosa Villar Jarionca to death over claims she made people sick through witchcraft. The alleged burning took place Sept. 20, but the area is so remote that word of it did not reach authorities until recently.
Mauricio said a cellphone video shot by a witness and given to prosecutors appeared to show Villar with her hands tied amid a pile of dry logs and branches. A man bathes the logs and the woman with gasoline and another man throws a lit match onto the bonfire. Villar can be heard screaming.
"The woman was burned alive because the people accused her of being a witch," Mauricio told The Associated Press.
He added that villagers burned her body on the pyre for three days to leave no traces of the killing but that authorities managed to locate some bones. He said he and 20 police officers visited the scene and returned with evidence they collected.
A record of the decision to burn Villar at the stake was written by hand in the community's log book and seen by authorities, Mauricio said. It indicated she was sentenced by a majority vote and the decision was signed by community leaders, he said.
The document said her punishment would serve "as an example to the community and other communities against this kind of damage," referring to allegations that Villar had made members of the community sick, the prosecutor said.
Mauricio, whose Puerto Bermudez district in Peru's central rainforest includes 300 indigenous communities, said accusations of witchcraft are common. In 2015, a pregnant woman in another community was accused of witchcraft and beaten so badly she aborted.
He said the remote area lacks a strong government presence, with residents having scant access to justice, health or education.
The Burning Times Persist...
Woman accused of witchcraft burned alive for three days in Peruvian jungle
Published September 28, 2016
Fox News Latino
LIMA, Peru (AP) – A woman accused of being a witch was burned alive on a bonfire in an indigenous community in a remote part of the country's Amazon rainforest, authorities said Tuesday.
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Prosecutor Hugo Mauricio said members of the Shiringamazu Alto community sentenced 73-year-old Rosa Villar Jarionca to death over claims she made people sick through witchcraft. The alleged burning took place Sept. 20, but the area is so remote that word of it did not reach authorities until recently.
Mauricio said a cellphone video shot by a witness and given to prosecutors appeared to show Villar with her hands tied amid a pile of dry logs and branches. A man bathes the logs and the woman with gasoline and another man throws a lit match onto the bonfire. Villar can be heard screaming.
"The woman was burned alive because the people accused her of being a witch," Mauricio told The Associated Press.
He added that villagers burned her body on the pyre for three days to leave no traces of the killing but that authorities managed to locate some bones. He said he and 20 police officers visited the scene and returned with evidence they collected.
A record of the decision to burn Villar at the stake was written by hand in the community's log book and seen by authorities, Mauricio said. It indicated she was sentenced by a majority vote and the decision was signed by community leaders, he said.
The document said her punishment would serve "as an example to the community and other communities against this kind of damage," referring to allegations that Villar had made members of the community sick, the prosecutor said.
Mauricio, whose Puerto Bermudez district in Peru's central rainforest includes 300 indigenous communities, said accusations of witchcraft are common. In 2015, a pregnant woman in another community was accused of witchcraft and beaten so badly she aborted.
He said the remote area lacks a strong government presence, with residents having scant access to justice, health or education.
Such Ignorance and superstition alive and well in the Amazon Jungle.
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A little background on upcoming Samhain, however, I disagree strongly with the description of witchcraft...
In this illustration from 1871, young women gathered around the hearth on All Hallow's Eve.
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
"Samhain was a day — if you think of it magically, and they thought of it magically —when fairies or imps or supernatural beings would come out of the countryside, out of the hills and devastate the crops, and they were foreboding death in some ways, the death of the vegetation," Rogers told Live Science.
But there's some dispute among historians about how directly modern-day Halloween is linked to Samhain. Little is really known about how Samhain was celebrated, Rogers said.
This is what I do Not agree:
when fairies or imps or supernatural beings would come out of the countryside, out of the hills and devastate the crops, and they were foreboding death in some ways, the death of the vegetation," Rogers told Live Science.
In this illustration from 1871, young women gathered around the hearth on All Hallow's Eve.
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
"Samhain was a day — if you think of it magically, and they thought of it magically —when fairies or imps or supernatural beings would come out of the countryside, out of the hills and devastate the crops, and they were foreboding death in some ways, the death of the vegetation," Rogers told Live Science.
But there's some dispute among historians about how directly modern-day Halloween is linked to Samhain. Little is really known about how Samhain was celebrated, Rogers said.
This is what I do Not agree:
when fairies or imps or supernatural beings would come out of the countryside, out of the hills and devastate the crops, and they were foreboding death in some ways, the death of the vegetation," Rogers told Live Science.
Mokey
Magically Delicious
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