A woman, accused of practising witchcraft, was publicly beaten up and her face blackened following the death of a girl at the holy town of Trimbakeshwar.

[via The Hindu]

A little over 300 years ago we would have thought nothing of this in the “New World” and we all would probably be cheering them on.

Mr Poussaint sees nothing wrong with what he does. It is, he insists, work that has to be carried out.

“If the child is not exorcised then it will grow up to be horrible. I get results,” said the 75-year-old, who is originally from Benin in West Africa.

[via The Telegraph]

This is the first I’ve personally heard of “exorcism” outside of the Christian & Catholic realm (in this case Voodoo), but I guess that shouldn’t come as a shock since during the slave days Catholic beliefs were melded with ancient voodoo (more of a disguise…Wikipedia has more background info if you’re curious).