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gryphon
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maneating witches
      #2648 - 06/05/03 07:01 AM


Lion attacks spark 'witch' killings
From correspondents in Mozambique
06may03

ANGRY villagers in Mozambique have killed a dozen people suspected of being witches after a killing spree by man-eating lions, police said.

A spokesman told Radio Mozambique lions had devoured 20 victims, including women, in northern Cabo Delgado province over the past four months.
Villagers believed the lions to be witches who had taken on the form of the carnivores, he said.

They had attacked and killed 12 people in the area.

"Twelve suspected witches were beaten to death by angry relatives (of the dead)."









No arrests had been made, but there were plans to hunt down the man-eating lions, the radio station was told.

Belief in witchcraft is prevalent in central and northern Mozambique, which have high rates of illiteracy.

There are also many reported casualties from animal attacks in wild, remote areas.

So far this year, 22 people have reportedly been killed in crocodile attacks in the central Mozambique province of Tete. Many local people also believe those attacks to be the work of witches.





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Re: maneating witches [Re: gryphon]
      #2655 - 06/05/03 08:19 PM

I wonder if it could be possible to link Mugabe with a man eating lion in ZIM !!!

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Re: maneating witches [Re: SafariHunt]
      #2662 - 06/05/03 09:26 PM

In India, they used to lynch the hermits in the forests, as they were suspected of turning themselves into maneaters.
Even the dreaded 'Churails' were blamed.
I didn't know how bad maneating Lions in Mozambique were, till I read Maneaters and Marauders by Taylor, and Months of the Sun, By Nyschens.

Safari-Hunt, I don't know if you can compare Mugabe to a maneater, more of a scavenger than anything else.
Maybe a Putsi fly
Mpofu.

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Re: maneating witches [Re: Mpofu]
      #2665 - 06/05/03 10:15 PM

A pity for the unfortunate individuals killed due to the superstition.

Uganda is another place rife with superstition, or at least it is reported from there.

I remember a girl of about 9 or 11 years of age who commanded a rebel army and the soliders believed they were immune to bullets. This was only in the last decade or so.

Also a whole church building or hall where all the inhabitants were burned alive for some alleged witchcraft (over 200 persons).

When I hunted in Zimbabwe in 1994 we were driving along a track at night back to camp. One of the trackers was shining a spotlight around and it was good to see what game was around on the sides of the road. The light picked up a hyaena and the PH immediately said "shoot it, shoot it!". I hesitated as you never know if you are going to be expected to have to pay for it and I certainly didn't want a spotlighted hyaena. When told no, I took a shot but the hyaena was running away and dodged into the dark just as I fired at about 100 metres. Missed.

Found out then that Viv in camp, doing live game capture, wanted a dead hyaena to supply to a movie company in Kenya. The hyaena was to be frozen and flown up to Kenya. Would have earned the "getter" a US$100 fee. They didn't tell me that until AFTER I missed it.

Anyway to the point. Wayne the PH mentioned that it would have been interesting to see which of the three trackers would have been willing to handle the hyaena. He said certainly Judea his tracker, but not Chipisi a local tracker. The man in question was George, the properties game guard/tracker who was also a Christian. But never found out. The local Ndebele believe that hyaenas are witches who have turned themselves into a hyaena and will not handle them.

Or so I was told.


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