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    SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) -- An angry crowd stoned to death an Indian man accused of practicing witchcraft in a southern Mexico town with a long tradition of religious violence.

    The man, Domingo Shilon Shilon, was also hacked with machetes Sunday by the crowd in San Juan Chamula, a majority Catholic township on the outskirts of the colonial city of San Cristobal, 460 miles (735 kms) southeast of Mexico City.

    Shilon, 50, was caught by the crowd in a neighborhood known as Rancho Narvaez, state police said. After killing him, the crowd partially burned his body.

    Shilon, like most of his alleged attackers, was a Tzotzil Indian, a branch of the Maya. The Chiapas state Justice Department said an investigation was continuing into the killing, but it is often difficult to prosecute such cases, given that witnesses are frequently unwilling to testify.

    Since the 1960s, San Juan Chamula has seen numerous killings and confrontations as "traditional" Catholics -- who mix pre-Hispanic Indian rights with Roman liturgy -- battle to expel evangelical Protestants.

    Witchcraft is often blamed for outbreaks of illness or the deaths of children in the impoverished Indian community, where many practice faith healing and some residents -- mainly men -- engage in so-called "white" magic.

    In 1996, residents of another San Juan Chamula neighborhood beat and then hanged a man suspected of causing ailments and misfortune through witchcraft.

    The villagers killed the man after they went to a cave he frequented and found bottles dressed in the local Indian garb, objects he allegedly used in casting spells on people.
    Yet another example of why I'm proud to be an American.
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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    Sorry, forgot the link.
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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    • #3
      i'm glad. those damn witches have had it comming for almost 300 years.
      "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
      - Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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      • #4
        we got rid of all our witches long time ago.

        Another good reason for stiffer immigration laws. j/k
        :-p

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        • #5
          Stoned, hacked AND burned. They have WAY too much time on their hands.

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          • #6
            Religion and superstition at their best
            "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
            "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
            "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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            • #7
              "Another good reason for stiffer immigration laws."

              Stiffer immigrants? You, sir, are no chiropractor!!!
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              Drake Tungsten
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              • #8
                Originally posted by UberKruX
                i'm glad. those damn witches have had it comming for almost 300 years.
                "I bet Ikarus eats his own spunk..."
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                • #9
                  I hate witches, I always have to take the train and the railroad station is surrounded by a large green area (I use to walk my dog there) the problem is that it is disgusting to see the rests of the Macumba ( a brazilian african cult that is now getting fashionable) rituals all around the grass, usually there are decapitated chickens with red candles and that kind of things, ugly.
                  Periodista : A proposito del escudo de la fe, Elisa, a mí me sorprendía Reutemann diciendo que estaba dispuesto a enfrentarse con el mismísimo demonio (Menem) y después terminó bajándose de la candidatura. Ahí parece que fuera ganando el demonio.

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                  • #10
                    Plan Austral :
                    I'm almost surprised we live on the same planet. What you describe is inimaginable here nowadays. There is sure some hype for new supersticions, but I cannot even fathom seeing some ritual's remnant in a park
                    "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
                    "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
                    "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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                    • #11
                      A friend told me there is a list of all witches burned in our city (Zagreb) in a museum

                      And a story I heard, maybe someone can confirm is is an urban legend?


                      Supposedly, Brits burned a women during WWII for being a witch. Actually she wasn't a witch, but she had ability to predict future. Brits supposedly gotten affraid of that screwing up the war, or her falling to enemy hands or something.

                      So they pulled out that antique law that was till valid and burned her. All nice and legal

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                      • #12
                        I believe he was only kidding... or I hope atleast

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by VetLegion
                          A friend told me there is a list of all witches burned in our city (Zagreb) in a museum

                          And a story I heard, maybe someone can confirm is is an urban legend?


                          Supposedly, Brits burned a women during WWII for being a witch. Actually she wasn't a witch, but she had ability to predict future. Brits supposedly gotten affraid of that screwing up the war, or her falling to enemy hands or something.

                          So they pulled out that antique law that was till valid and burned her. All nice and legal
                          If she could, she must have sucked at it, I mean, they got her afterall didn't they?

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                          • #14
                            Funny how so many people still can't follow their own religion correctly....the fools obviously forgot to call up the Inquisition beforehand.
                            DULCE BELLUM INEXPERTIS

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                            • #15
                              If she could, she must have sucked at it, I mean, they got her afterall didn't they?


                              You can't escape the Scotland Yard

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