India: In Assam village, 35 ‘witches’ await ‘purification’

October the 16th: A tribal village on the Majuli island in Assam has kept 35 people — several of them women — virtually under house arrest for the past 10 days before a “purification” ceremony absolves them of sins ranging from alleged killing to harming fellow residents through witchcraft. Read more here.

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